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Brewer's: Pyrrha
Sæculum Pyrrhæ. The Flood. Pyrrha was the wife of Deucalion (Horace: 1 Odes, ii. 6). So much rain has fallen, it looks as if the days of Pyrrha were about to return. Source: Dictionary…Brewer's: Vixere
“Vixere fortes ante Agamemnoua” (Horace). You are not the first great man that ever lived, though you boast so mightily. Our own age does not monopolise the right of merit. Source:…Brewer's: Woo'
or Woo'e. Stop, addressed to a horse. The Latin word ohë has the same meaning. Thus Horace (1 Sat. v. 12); “Ohe, jam satis est.”…Brewer's: Sicilian Dishes
(Siculoe dapes) were choice foods. The best Roman cooks were Sicilians. Horace (3 Odes, i. 18) tells us that when a sword hangs over our head, as in the case of Damocles, not even “…Brewer's: Theon's Tooth
The bite of an illnatured or carping critic. “Dente Theonino circumrodi, ” to be nastily aspersed. (Horace: Epistles, i. 18, 82.) Theon was a carping grammarian of Rome. Source:…Brewer's: Galesus
(g hard). A river of Puglia, not far from Tarentum. The sheep that fed on the meadows of Galesus were noted for their fine wool. (Horace: 2 Carminum Liber, vi. 10.) Source: Dictionary of…Brewer's: Get
(To). To gain; to procure; to obtain. Get wealth and place, if possible with grace: If not, by any means get wealth and place. Horace (Satires says: “Rem facis, recte si possis; si non,…Brewer's: Feast of Reason
There St. John [Sin-jn] mingles with the friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul. Pope: Imitations of Horace, ii. 1. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…Brewer's: Mincio
or Mintio. The birthplace of Virgil. The Clitumnus, a river of Umbria, was the residence of Propertius; the Anio is where Horace had a villa; the river Meles, in Ionia, is the supposed…Brewer's: O'leum Adde Camino
To pour oil on fire; to aggravate a wound under pretence of healing it. (Horace: Satires, ii. 3, 321.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894OlibriusOldest Nation…Trending
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