• For men may prove and use their friends, as the poet expresses it, usque ad aras, meaning that a friend should not be required to act contrary to the law of God.

    Miguel de Cervantes: For men may prove and use their friends, as the poet expresses it, usque ad aras, meaning that a friend should not be required to act contrary to the law of God.
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1867). “Don Quixote”, p.189