He's lost his map in the middle of a desert! He's fucked.

Ovis, therefore, is epicene, and, moreover, a true epicene, like volpes, aquila, merula, avis, panthera, corvus, and others. It is epicene, because it has just been proved to be the generic term for sheep without thought for sex, to have only one grammatical gender, feminine, and yet, as a true epicene, to be carried to its logical development, so that on a few occasions, such as we have encountered in Ovid, and in [Marcus Terentius] Varro, it is employed strictly of the male.

This “bornness” often entails so many infirmities of genius as to greatly modify its value. In the game of salesmanship, as it is beginning to be played today, “bornness” untrained cannot compete with highly trained mediocrity.

He had aged but a year chronologically, but in appearance a decade.