Such were we, to such are we returning: not other, sings the poet, than one who toilfully works his shallop against the tide, "si Brachia forte remisit":-let him haply relax the labour of his arms, however high up the stream, and back he goes, "in pejus", to the early principle of our being, with seeds and plants, that are as carelessly weighed in the hand and as indiscriminately husbanded as our humanity.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith
Ipsa Venus magico religatum Brachia nodo Perdocuit, multis non sine verberibus.
"The Satyricon, Complete"
Petronius Arbiter
Quod comperiens Pinefredus adolescens, quasi a graui sompno expergefactus, erexit se: et compagibus neruorum laxatis, et miraculose protensis, sese de longa desidia redarguens, fecit alices, Brachia, crura, pedes, extendendo.
"Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn"
R. W. Chambers