Persius
Americannoun
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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
His satire had thus none of the limitation and unreality which attaches to the work of a student and recluse, such as Persius was.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by Sellar, W. Y.
What Persius said is equally true of the clerical “turba Remi” now,—“sequitur fortunam ut semper, et odit damnatos.”
From Letters From Rome on the Council by D?llinger, Johann Joseph Ignaz von
The testimony of Cicero, Persius, Juvenal, Quintilian, Tacitus, and Gellius, confirms on this point the more ample testimony of Horace.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by Sellar, W. Y.
Persius maintains the same idea: Gigni De nihilo nil, in nihilum nil posse reverti.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
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