Persius
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Department spokesman John Pepin says at-risk insects living in the sprayed areas include the Mitchell’s satyr, the Silphium borer moth and Persius duskywing butterfly.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 12, 2019
The language of Lucan, Persius, and Juvenal still breathed the same spirit in the deadening atmosphere of the Empire.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by W. Y. Sellar
But Persius was by birth, education, and choice a Stoic.
From Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman by Frank Justus Miller
Next came Dryden's Persius, to which Congreve prefixed a splendid poem of compliment: the triumph of The Old Bachelor followed in January.
From Aspects and Impressions by Edmund Gosse
Horace and Persius, when they purposely set themselves to expose and exaggerate its follies, could imagine nothing beyond it.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by John Dunlop
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