hebetate the faculties

[…] the elite warrior class and their sexual rangings in pursuit of extratribal wives […]

The public has referred the question to Time: the procedure of this great king I venture to describe, from precedents, by an adaptation of some smart anapaestic tetrameters--your anapaest is the foot for satire to halt on, both in Greek and English--which I read about twenty years ago, and with the point of which I was much tickled.

So I sized you down, and I'm bound to say that you came well out of it.