tangor

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TANGANT.= 'Impress'; compare Her V 81 'non ego miror opes, nec me tua regia tangit', Her VI 113, Her VII 11, Met IV 639, Met X 614-15 'nec forma tangor (poteram tamen hac quoque tangi), / sed quod adhuc puer est: non me mouet ipse, sed aetas', and Fast V 489, as well as Her XVI 83.

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  1. large citrus tree having large sweet deep orange fruit that is easily peeled; widely cultivated in Florida

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  • TANGANT.= 'Impress'; compare Her V 81 'non ego miror opes, nec me tua regia tangit', Her VI 113, Her VII 11, Met IV 639, Met X 614-15 'nec forma tangor (poteram tamen hac quoque tangi), / sed quod adhuc puer est: non me mouet ipse, sed aetas', and Fast V 489, as well as Her XVI 83. —  The Last Poems of Ovid
  • [255] "Ut taceam de me, qui causa tangor ab omni, —  The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3)
  • = IBIT (_BP_) is printed by all modern editors except André, and is possibly correct: compare _Am_ II iv 31-32 'ut taceam de me, qui causa tangor ab omni,/illic Hippolytum pone, Priapus _erit_' for the future tense used of a mythological character, and _EP_ II xi 21-22 —  The Last Poems of Ovid
 

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