Baseling

O weaklings, baselings we, — Achaian women, and not men!

Why lift aloft the baseling? give the sword To unanointed hands? garland the brow Which virtue never crowned? […]

Or again, the world's simpletons, the world's nonentities, the world's weaklings and baselings (i.e., elements deemed such by the world) the chosen things, the very elements of God's selection for the kingdom, […]