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Brewer's: Irritable Genus
(The) or the “Genus irritabile” (Horace: Epistles, ii. 2, 102). Poets, and authors generally. “It [publishers'] is a wrathful trade, and the irritable genus comprehends the bookselling as…NFC: Football Players, Sports
Vikings, 23-22Minnesota (9-7)03713—23NY Giants (10-5-1)01903—22Date—Dec. 27. Att—77,497. Time—3:08.1st Quarter: NY—Brad Daluiso 43-yd FG, 6:35; NY—Daluiso 22-yd FG, 2:20.2nd Quarter: NY—Aaron…Brewer's: Cento
Poetry made up of lines borrowed from established authors. Ausonius has a nuptial idyll composed from verses selected from Virgil. (Latin, cento, patchwork.) The best known are the…Brewer's: Charybdis
[ch=k]. A whirlpool on the coast of Sicily. Scylla and Charybdis are employed to signify two equal dangers. Thus Horace says an author trying to avoid Scylla, drifts into Charybdis, i.e.…Brewer's: Covetous Man
A Tantalus (q.v.). In the full flood stands Tantalus, his skin Washed o'er in vain, for ever dry within. He catches at the stream with greedy lips - From his parched mouth the wanton…Brewer's: Credat Judæus
or Credat Judæus Apella. Tell that to the Marines. That may do for Apella, but I don't believe a word of it. Who this Apella was, nobody knows. (Horace: 1 Satires, v. line 100.) Cicero…Brewer's: Dutch Uncle
I will talk to you like a Dutch uncle. Will reprove you smartly. Uncle is the Latin notion of patruus, “an uncle,” “severe guardian,” or “stern castigator.” Hence Horace, 3 Od. xii. 3, “…Brewer's: Divus
in Latin, attached to a proper name, does not mean divine, but simply deceased or canonised; excellently translated in Notes and Queries (May 21st, 1892, p. 421), “of blessed memory.” Thus…Brewer's: Cicuta
In Latin cicuta means the length of a reed up to the knot, such as the internodes made into a Pan-pipe. Hence Virgil ( Ecl. ii. 36) describes a Pan-pipe as “septem compacta cicutis fistula…Brewer's: Cupid
The god of love, and son of Venus. According to fable he wets with blood the grindstone on which he sharpens his arrows. Ferus et Cupido Semper ardentes acuens sagittas.' Horace: 2 Odes,…Trending
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