Scaevola
Americannoun
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Many plants, which she never considered, were a welcome surprise: ‘Mystic Spires Blue’ salvia, purple fairy fan flower, Scaevola albida ‘Mauve Clusters’ and the native shrub toyon, or California holly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2022
The pedantic monarch thought himself in the presence of a fanatical Mutius Scaevola.
From A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) by Leopold von Ranke
There the speakers are usually of the nobility, often distinguished members of senatorial families, as in the de Oratore, where the chief personae are Crassus, Antonius, and Scaevola, the conservative triumvirate of the day.
From Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero by W. Warde Fowler
Quintus Scaevola and Varro applied all the forces of subtle antiquarianism and reverence to sustain the ancestral faith.
From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Samuel Dill
He had been quaestor under Mucius Scaevola, in 98 B. C. governor of Asia, where both had sternly checked any unjust exactions by the agents of the publicani.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak
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