A New Dictionary of Quotations from the Greek, Latin, and Modern Languages: Translated Into English, and Occasionally Accompanied with Illustrations, Historical Poetical, and Anecdotal, with an Extensive Index, Referring to Every Important Word |
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-Pater ipse colendi Haud facilem esse viam voluit , primusque per artem Movit agros , curis acuens mortalia corda . Lat . VIRGIL.— " The father himself [ in allusion to JUPITER , the supreme god of the heathens ] willed not ...
-Pater ipse colendi Haud facilem esse viam voluit , primusque per artem Movit agros , curis acuens mortalia corda . Lat . VIRGIL.— " The father himself [ in allusion to JUPITER , the supreme god of the heathens ] willed not ...
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| Title | A New Dictionary of Quotations from the Greek, Latin, and Modern Languages: Translated Into English, and Occasionally Accompanied with Illustrations, Historical Poetical, and Anecdotal, with an Extensive Index, Referring to Every Important Word |
| Edition | 8 |
| Publisher | J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1869 |
| Original from | the University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitized | 13 Nov 2007 |
| Length | 528 pages |
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