239.] His physical sensitiveness, developed by austerity of life, was of the highest acuteness.

Sight, touch, and taste in him acquired the most exquisite delicacy.

He was wont to say that he feared no poison in his food, since he could discriminate the least adulteration of natural flavors.

His mental perspicacity was equally subtle.

As a boy he could recite thirty lines of Virgil after hearing them read over once.