Embalm, v. To cheat vegetation by locking up the gases upon which it feeds. By embalming their dead and thereby deranging the natural balance between animal and vegetable life, the Egyptians made their once fertile and populous country barren and incapable of supporting more than a meagre crew. The modern metallic burial casket is a step in the same direction, and many a dead man who ought now to be ornamenting his neighbor's lawn as a tree, or enriching his table as a bunch of radishes, is doomed to a long inutility. We shall get him after awhile if we are spared, but in the meantime the violet and the rose are languishing for a nibble at his glutaeus maximus.
Quotes about maximus (3 Quotes)
The bad news is that Maximus failed to meet their service-level requirements for paper-based turn-around times in September and as a consequence are being penalized for that, ... it is likely that there will be a paper-based penalty (for October) as well.
Said of Ennius Greatest in genius, rough in skill. Ingenio maximus, arte rudis.