Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Winter.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Winter.

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Examples

  • As my friend Michael Putnam has noted, "Solvitur acris hiems" is Horace I. 4 (the misnumbering can be explained by the fact that I had recently been working with Propertius IV. 2).

    Pears Before Swine Rowland, Ingrid D. 2004

  • "Salvitur acris hiems gratâ vice veris et Favoni,"

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843 Various

  • [13] There is only one stem ending in - m: -- hiems, hiemīs, _winter_.

    New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett

  • Only the fantastic touch about 'green ice' ranks it as 'metaphysical', for it is in fact an experiment in the manner of the Horatian ode, not the heroic ode, but the lighter Epicurean, meditative strain of 'Solvitur acris hiems' and 'Vides ut alta stet nive candidum', description yielding abruptly to reflection.

    Introduction. Grierson, Herbert J.C Herbert J.C. Grierson 1921

  • Segrais has observ’d farther, that, when Anna counsels Dido to stay Æneas during the winter, she speaks also of Orion: Dum pelago desævit hiems, et aquosus Orion.

    Dedication Vergil 1909

  • The severe winter (_magna hiems_) is of course familiar enough anywhere along the northeastern coast of America.

    The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest John Fiske 1871

  • I have also ventured to invent a metre for that technically known as the Fourth Archilochian, the "Solvitur acris hiems," by combining the fourteen-syllable with the ten-syllable iambic in an alternately rhyming stanza.

    The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace 65 BC-8 BC Horace 1847

  • Iam enim hiems transiit; imber abiit, et recessit.

    RORATE CÆLI 2010

  • Anguflos habeant aditus; nam frigore mella Cogit hiems, eademque calor liquefada remittit:

    P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796

  • Quae gravidam late fegetem ab radicibus imis Sublime expulfam eruerent: ita turbine nigro Perret hiems culmumque levem fUpulasque vo - lantis.

    P. Virgilii Maronis opera: emendabat et notulis illustr. G. Wakefield Virgil, Publius Vergilius Maro 1796

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