He is teres et rotundas; strokes fly from the lubricity of his polish, and the shiftings of his circular formation.
At last the lover begs for mercy; he writes Venus a letter: "with the teres of min eye in stede of inke."
No longer 'in seipso totus, teres, atque rotundus' its reputation for inviolability and indestructibility is gone for ever.
Again the names are different; and this Teres was king of the Odrysians, the first by the way who attained to any power.
Here was a piece of experience solidly and livingly built up in words, here was a story created, teres atque rotundus.
