... sometimes break their rings and fail to place them back—"et cujus refibulavit turgidum faber peruem." Heinsius considers Agamemnon cautious when he left Demodocus near Clytemnestra, as he remarks that Demodocus was infibulated. For such purposes as the foregoing infibulation offered a more humane method ... — Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould