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Lais, Glycera, and their names will always be celebrated; such, also, was Ninon d'Enclos, one of the ornaments of the century of
Satyricon 2007
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Lydia and Glycera, and the others, are but passing guests of a heart at ease in itself, and happy enough when their facile reign is ended.
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He was walking by the hedge, reading, I think a brevier book with, I doubt not, a witty letter in it from Glycera or Chloe to keep the page.
Ulysses 2003
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Pausias has his easel set, Glycera is dressed in white.
Fringilla: Some Tales In Verse Richard Doddridge Blackmore
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The precise dates of his birth and death are in doubt, and what we know of his life is all in his own poems; except that Horace condoles with him about Glycera, and Apuleius says Delia's real name was Plautia.
The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse 54 BC-19 BC Tibullus
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The cover design, borders, initial letters and the whole of the full-page illustrations -- with the exception of the three to 'Pausias and Glycera' by James W.R. Linton -- are by Louis Fairfax-Muckley.
Fringilla: Some Tales In Verse Richard Doddridge Blackmore
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She appears to be the 'immitis Glycera' of Hor. _Od. _ i.
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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To dally with golden-haired Pyrrha, with Lyce, or with Glycera, the beauty more brilliant than Parian marble, was not in his eyes to be blamed in itself.
Horace and His Influence Grant Showerman
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Glycera weaving garlands, Pausias stands admiring.
Fringilla: Some Tales In Verse Richard Doddridge Blackmore
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To Glycera, Integer Vitae, To Chloe, Horace and Lydia, The Bandusian Spring, Faunus, To an Old Wine-Jar, The End of Love, and Beatus Ille are merely jeux-d'esprit of the sort that for the moment lighten and clear the spirit.
Horace and His Influence Showerman, Grant, 1870-1935 1922
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