Note 110 — BOOK I.
William Julius Mickle translation
Flints, clods, and javelins hurling as they fly, As rage, &c.— Jamque faces et saxa volant, furor arma ministrat.
Virg. Æn. i.
The Spanish commentator on this place relates a very extraordinary instance of the furor arma ministrans. A Portuguese soldier at the siege of Diu in the Indies, being surrounded by the enemy, and having no ball to charge his musket, pulled out one of his teeth, and with it supplied the place of a bullet.