Sit down, man, before you fall —
vitiant artus agra contagia mentis,* as Ovid would say if he could see you.
*
When the mind is ill at ease, the body is somewhat effected.
Flashman and the Angel of the Lord,
p.60,
Harper Collins, 1995.
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