Robert Donald Locke

Isn't petroselinum the name for parsley? (No, it's Greek, you swine. And what's the Greek name for Swine's Snout? I could hurl it at you, like the Pope hurling anathema.)

Dredging up all the miserable Latin he knew, Ambrose fished for some word similar to lupinus. And suddenly he had it! Pulicus! That was the word the sloppy copyist of yesteryear had wrongly transcribed. From the word pulex, meaning "flea." Not how to become a wolf-like man, but a flea-like man—that was what the formula had described.