fons et origo
Americannoun
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Fons et origo is 1963’s From Russia With Love, blessed with its Beauty and the Beast tag-team of deadly Klebb and Tatiana Romanova, straight out of the Honeytrap School of Espionage.
From The Guardian
Photograph: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd/Royal Academy of Arts, London If there was one picture that was the fons et origo of the British school it was Wilson's The Destruction of Niobe and her Children, painted in 1760.
From The Guardian
Darwin, who is really the fons et origo of the present agitation, is hardly more than a name to the outer world.
From Project Gutenberg
I never did think him guilty by premeditation, but I knew that, as for so long a time he was the strong head of the executive, he was not loved, and that to save the Senaputtee, whom I of course at once pitched upon as the ”fons et origo” of the rebellion, and who like all of the blood royal was looked upon as semi-divine, he would be accused.
From Project Gutenberg
But, so far, there has very little of positive value, in determining the “fons et origo” of insanity, been brought to light through pathological researches.
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