"Lepus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... for game?)—Ver. 426. "Pulmentum," more strictly speaking, "A nice bit." Patrick has the following Note on this passage: "'Lepus tute es, et pulmentum quaeris?' A proverbial expression in use at that time: the proper meaning of it, stripped of its figure, is, 'You are little more than a woman yourself, and do you want a mistress?'" We learn from Donatus and Vopiscus, that Livius Andronicus had used this proverb in his ...
— The Comedies of Terence - Literally Translated into English Prose, with Notes • Publius Terentius Afer, (AKA) Terence
... have no other. B.—1. A collection of printed sheets. 2. A small creeping animal without feet. A devourer of that which is written, C.—1. The edge, or brink, of a fountain or river. 2. A hardened mass of earthy matter. A mineral substance. D.—1. A rodent of the genus lepus. 2. A hollow sounding body of metal. A flower of the campanula kind. E.—1. An emblem of innocence. 2. An extremity. A peculiar joint. F.—1. An uncertain quantity. 2. The organized material of an animal. A person unknown, ...
— Chatterbox, 1906 • Various |
