But of the marchings and retreatings of these Six-thousand no Xenophon exists. Nothing, but an inarticulate hum, of cursing and sooty frenzy, surviving dubious in the memory of ages!

Because he that firſt raiſeth a hue and cry, where no felony is committed, that is, he who giveth the falſe information, is ſeverely puniſhable by fine and impriſonment, if the information be falſe.

In comparison to the Zoflora-scented cult that's grown up around @mrshinch, Lynsey Crombie, aka @lynsey_queenofclean, a blonde 40-year-old cleanfluencer from Petersborough, offers a cosier roster of domestic aphorisms.

He was once on his way to an old woman, who was on her death-bed and who had led a wicked life.