Ad nefandos cibos erupit esurientium rabies, et sua
invicem membra laniarunt dum mater non parcit lactenti
infantiæ; et recipit utero, quem paullò ante effuderat.
Jerom. ad. Principiam, tom. i. p. 121 [Ep. cxxvii. tom. i.
p. 953, ed. Vallars.].
The same horrid circumstance is likewise told of the sieges of Jerusalem and Paris. For the latter, compare the tenth book of the Henriade, and the Journal de Henri IV. tom. i. p. 47-83; and observe that a plain narrative of facts is much more pathetic than the most laboured descriptions of epic poetry.