decem
Americanadjective
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Is the poisoned breath of the casuist to destroy the prosperity of those— "Quos neque Tydides, nec Larissæus Achilles, Non anni domuere decem, non mille carinæ!"
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 by Various
December, again, is derived from decem and imbres 'quibus abundare solet'; and so too the other numbered months.
From The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London by P. S. (Percy Stafford) Allen
That was called compounding, componat cum decem, viginti, triginta solidis.
From Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire
This book was perhaps the Dialogi decem, put into print at Cologne in 1472: Brunet.
From Notes and Queries, Number 32, June 8, 1850 by Various
Mr. Maclaurin wrote an essay against the Homeric tale of 'Troy divine,' I believe, for the sole purpose of introducing a happy motto,— 'Non anni domuere decem non mille carinæ.'
From Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 by George Birkbeck Norman Hill
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