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In Latin the word feralis translates to 'belonging to the dead,' and fera means 'wild beast.'
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I do not, however, clearly see what the _feralis cæna_ of guest and executor has to do with the dinner of two living men.
Gryll Grange Thomas Love Peacock 1825
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Alias filicemium dicc - bantur dapes ab cxieauiis oblatac Manibus, & fupcr niicem fepulchri pofitac j unde Scal. ad FcHum fiUcemium voluit dici cum, qui dignus crat, cui filiccrnium, cocna feralis, appo - ncrctur.
Publii Terentii Afri Comoediae sex novissime recognitae cum selecta varietate lectionum et ... 1779
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_feralis arbor_, (as Virgil calls the pine) are abundantly planted in
Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663
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Zosimus (l.i. p. 43) mentions only three senators, and placed their death before the eastern war.] [Footnote 93: Nulla catenati feralis pompa senatus Carnificum lassabit opus; nec carcere pleno Infelix raros numerabit curia Patres.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 Edward Gibbon 1765
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