Thapsus
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noun
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The real word was Bouillon; and that happens to be the trivial name in French for the plant Verbascum Thapsus.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
We pass the place where, mingling with the spray, Through narrow rocks Pantagia's stream outflows; We see low-lying Thapsus and the bay Of Megara.
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Edward Fairfax Taylor
Juba, king of Numidia, prepared to do the same after the battle of Thapsus.
From Outline of Universal History by George Park Fisher
But he was supported by King Bogud of Mauretania and a Catalinarian soldier of fortune, Publius Sittius, and after receiving reinforcements from Italy he besieged the seaport Thapsus.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak
Even after Thapsus at the intercession of his friends he pardoned bitter foes like Marcus Marcellus, one of the consuls of 50 B. C.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak
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