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  • He had found out the only bait in the world to catch so shy a carp as my father, -- haaret letalis arundo.

    The Caxtons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • He had found out the only bait in the world to catch so shy a carp as my father, -- haaret letalis arundo.

    The Caxtons — Volume 06 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • | 40 | 124 | A mortal anguish | Humor letalis | 114 | 169 |

    Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse Various 1866

  • et tollis mersum luctu caput? omnia functa aut moritura uides: obeunt noctesque diesque astraque, nec solidis prodest sua machina terris. nam populus mortale genus; plebisque caducae5 quis fleat interitus? hos bella, hos aequora poscunt; his amor exitio, furor his et saeua cupido, ut sileam morbos; hos ora rigentia brumae, illos implacido letalis Sirius igni, hos manet imbrifero pallens Autumnus hiatu.

    'He bath outsoared the shadow of our night' 1912

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