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Lentulus, Piso, &c. Quintus Cincinnatus was called Serranus, because the ambassadors from the senate found him sowing, when they brought him word that he was made dictator.
Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed) Charles K. Dillaway
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Quintius, Serranus and many others, were offered not only wives but consulships and dictatorships in the open field.
The Defense Apuleius 2008
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Quintius, Serranus and many others, were offered not only wives but consulships and dictatorships in the open field.
The Defense Apuleius 2008
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Some fishes are exclusively carnivorous, as the cartilaginous genus, the conger, the channa or Serranus, the tunny, the bass, the synodon or Dentex, the amia, the sea-perch, and the muraena.
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Nor in the camp was the wailing less, when Rhamnes was found a bloodless corpse, and Serranus and Numa and all their princes destroyed in a single slaughter.
The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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Scipios, a double thunderbolt of war, Libya's bale? and Fabricius potent in poverty, or [844-875] thee, Serranus, sowing in the furrow?
The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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This is a percoid, _Serranus nigritus_ of Holbrook, and one of the very best table-fishes of these waters.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 Various
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The funeral of the son of Serranus Domesticus took place in very melancholy circumstances on the 23rd of November.
The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Serranus, fifty-two years old, who had labored nineteen years in the
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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Therewithal Lamyrus and Lamus, and beautiful young Serranus, who that night had played long and late, and lay with the conquering god heavy on every limb; happy, had he played out the night, and carried his game to day!
The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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