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Tiny white bumps that occur mostly on the face, especially around the eyes, milia are basically pores that are clogged with sebum and oil and have a layer of skin that has grown over them.

From Washington Post • Jan. 26, 2022

Quid habes cur ignoscas homini armaria citro atque ebore captanti, corpora conquirenti aut ignotorum auctorum aut improbatorum et inter tot milia librorum oscitanti, cui voluminum suorum frontes maxime placent titulique?

From The Care of Books by Clark, John Willis

Yet, he adds, the ancients did not always withdraw the sound: Vetustissimi tamen non semper eam subtrahebant, Ennius in X Annalium: “Insigneita fere tum milia militum octo  Duxit delectos bellum tolerare potentes.”

From The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it by Lord, Frances Ellen

But it is only in the Life by Probus that Andes is described as a ‘vicus,’ and there it is said to be distant from Mantua ‘xxx milia passuum.’

From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by Sellar, W. Y.

Furi, villula nostra non ad Austri flatus oppositast neque ad Favoni nec saevi Boreae aut Apeliotae, verum ad milia quindecim et ducentos.

From Readings from Latin Verse With Notes by Bushnell, Curtis C.