• To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.

    Pliny the Elder: To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
    Pliny the Elder (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)”, p.392, Delphi Classics