Book 1
61
You are going [now] to make things tally, that are contradictory in their natures. Pugnantia frontibus adversis means what we express by "diametrically opposite." The allusion in frontibus adversis is to a fight between bulls or rams, who butt each other with their heads. When I bid you not be a miser, I do not order you to become a debauchee or a prodigal.
