BIRTH, n.
The first and direst of all disasters.
As to the nature of it there appears to be no uniformity:
Castor and Pollux were born from the egg.
Pallas came out of a skull. Galatea was once a block of stone.
Peresilis, who wrote in the tenth century, avers that he grew up out of the ground where a priest had spilled holy water.
It is known that Arimaxus was derived from a hole in the earth, made by a stroke of lightning. Leucomedon was the son of a cavern in Mount Aetna, and I have myself seen a man come out of a wine cellar.
Wondering how my birth will be described during my eulogy...
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