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Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete - Montaigne, Michel de · 64 words
The flatterers of Alexander the Great possessed him that he was the son of Jupiter; but being one day wounded, and observing the blood stream from his wound. What say you now, my masters, said he, is not this blood of a crimson colour and purely human. This is not of the complexion of that which Homer makes to issue from the wounded gods.
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