Note 2113 — BOOK XV. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE FRUIT-TREES. (continued 2)
John Bostock translation
He alludes to the circumstance of the priestess being asked who should reign at Rome after Tarquin; upon which she answered, “He who first kisses his mother;” on which Brutus, the supposed idiot, stumbled to the ground, and kissed the earth, the mother of all.