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
Germany requires a Mutius Scaevola, to kill Porsenna, and, if he should miss him, to suffer as stoically as the Roman youth.
From Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia by F. Jordan
Cicero himself was thus apprenticed to Mucius Scaevola the augur: and in the same way the young Caelius, as soon as he had taken his toga virilis, was brought by his father to Cicero.
From Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero by W. Warde Fowler
The thing reminded him of the story of Fimbria and Scaevola.
From Roman life in the days of Cicero by Alfred John Church
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