soboles

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It was not so Part Ninth Cara deûm soboles, magnum Jovis incrementum Virgil The immense fame and success that Barty Josselin achieved were to him a source of constant disquiet.

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  1. In botany, a shoot, or creeping underground stem; also, a sucker, or a shoot in a wider sense.

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  • It was not so Part Ninth Cara deûm soboles, magnum Jovis incrementum Virgil The immense fame and success that Barty Josselin achieved were to him a source of constant disquiet. —  The Martian
  • "_Cara deúm soboles, magnum Jovis incrementum_"--"The dear offspring of God, the increase of Jove 378, 22. —  The Martian
  • "Cara deûm soboles, magnum Jovis incrementum." —  The Martian
  • "_Cara deúm soboles, magnum Jovis incrementum_" -- "The dear offspring of God, the increase of Jove." —  The Martian
  • Pulcia Gallorum soboles descendit in urbem, —  Literary Remains, Volume 1
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  1. New Latin, from Latin soboles, more properly suboles, a sprout, shoot, from sub, under, + olere, increase, grow.
 

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