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The closest parallel for the poetic singular cited by _OLD densus_ 3a is Martial IX lxxxvii 1-2 'Septem post calices Opimiani/_denso_ cum iaceam triente [19] blaesus'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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This sense of _densus_ is not found elsewhere in Ovid, but compare Virgil _G_ IV 347 '_densos_ diuum numerabat amores', Statius _Theb_ VI 421, and Juvenal IX 35-37 'quamuis
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Arduus, obliquus, caligine densus opaca, and this creek was exactly so.
Wanderings in South America Charles Waterton 1823
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Sententiis densus, et in iis quæ à sapientibus sunt, penè ipsis est par.
The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) Charles Rollin 1701
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Latin criticism has the right word for his work -- "densus." [
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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