They discovered a snake pretzelled into knots.

This time, however, his troops faced the full brunt of an Alemanni force that attacked them on the way.

Now you've broken it, you twerp!

[…] the custom [of female infibulation], I think, does not appear in Greek or Roman life, and the virgin girdles of antiquity have nothing in common with the chastity belts, although certain of the customs clustering around the use of these sashes suggest ideas allied to the notion of of a forcible closure of the private parts.