Note 294 — APPENDIX.
William Dansey translation
Armis from armi not arma. Wase’s version is wrong. The term is more commonly applied to the shoulder or arm of animals than man: but the sense of the passage requires the interpretation I have put upon it, and is farther illustrated by the “unguibus et pugnis” of Horace,Hor. Sat. L. i. S. iii. vs. 101. and “meræ vires” of Ovid:
Ovid. Art. Am. L. ii.
Tum genus humanum solis errabat in agris; Hisque meræ vires, et rude corpus erat.
Politian elegantly exemplifies the Faliscian’s meaning in his Silva, entitled Nutricia;
Carmina V. Illustr. Poet. p. 159.
Sed longum tamen obscuris immersa tenebris Gens rudis, atque inculta virûm, sine more, sine ullâ Lege propagabant ævum, passimque ferino Degebant homines ritu, visque insita cordi Mole obsessa gravi, nondùm ullos prompserat usus, Nil animo, duris agitabant cuncta lacertis.