Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens"

Book i. of Euclid is known as the _Pons Asinorum_, bridge of asses.

ASS, FEAST OF THE, formerly a festival in northern France, primarily in commemoration of the biblical flight into Egypt, and usually held on the 14th of January. A girl with a baby at her breast and seated on an ass splendidly caparisoned was led through the town to the church, and there placed at the gospel side of...