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  • -- 'O et præsidium et dulce decus meum, _agus_, Tityre tu patulæ recubans sub tegmine _Styornoway_, Arma virumque cano, _Macklyoda_ et

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various

  • You may still find the legendary shepherds here -- curly-haired striplings, reclining _sub tegmine fagi_ in the best Theocritean style, and piping wondrous melodies to their flocks.

    Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910

  • Captain Faucon came quietly up to me, as I was at work, with my knife, cutting the meat from a dirty hide, asked me how I liked California, and repeated—“Tityre, tu patul&æ recubans sub tegmine fagi.

    Chapter XX. Leisure-News from Home-“Burning the Water” 1909

  • A neighbor seeking him on business found him stretched sub tegmine querci, deep in his studies, while his negro plowman was fast asleep under another tree, and the mule was cropping the grateful corn-tops.

    History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868 Kemp Plummer 1907

  • It was a masquerade in which Margaret Fuller and Emerson appeared as invited guests, and held a meeting of the Transcendental club “sub tegmine fagi.”

    The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne Stearns, Frank P 1906

  • It is as well just to have a tag or two of Horace or Virgil: 'sub tegmine fagi,' or 'habet foenum in cornu,' which gives a flavour to one's conversation like the touch of garlic in a salad.

    Rodney Stone Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1896

  • It is as well just to have a tag or two of Horace or Virgil: 'sub tegmine fagi,' or 'habet foenum in cornu,' which gives a flavour to one's conversation like the touch of garlic in a salad.

    Rodney stone Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1896

  • Tityre, tu patulae recubans sub tegmine fagi, he warbled; and I stopped my play, and listened as if to a nightingale, until he reached tu, Tityre, lentus in umbra

    Father and Son: a study of two temperaments Edmund Gosse 1888

  • 'And pipe _sub tegmine fagi_ to your blue-eyed Amaryllis?

    Veranilda George Gissing 1880

  • Chapter viii. of Book II. is headed: De infantium recens natorum galeis, seu tenui mollique membrana, qua facies tanquam larva, aut personata tegmine obducta, ad primum lucis intuitum se spectandam exhibet.

    Current Superstitions Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk William Wells Newell 1873

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