octavus
Americanadjective
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Post mille expletos a partu Virginis annos, Et septingentos rursus ab orbe datos Octogessimus octavus mirabilis annus Ingruet: is secum tristia fata trahet.
From Project Gutenberg
None seem to wear an expression of more heartfelt sorrow, for the departure of Quadragesimus Octavus, during whose existence, being less greedy of honors than of gain, they were singularly favored, converting the necessities of other men into an abundance of bread and butter, for themselves.
From Project Gutenberg
In 1912, Lazarus bodily evicted the last of these, Octavus Roy Cohen, who had spent most of his working hours courting the girls at the Bayonne Opera House next door.
From Time Magazine Archive
Octavus liber de Sacramento baptismi et ejus forma plures Armenorum quaestiones absolvit.
From Project Gutenberg
Quartus decimus annus est, Caesar, ex quo spei tuae admotus sum, octavus, ut imperium obtines: medio temporis tantum honorum atque opum in me cumulasti, ut nihil felicitati meae desit nisi moderatio eius...
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