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His manifest respect and affection for his old and tried officials, such as Lucanus and zu
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(Written in advance, actually about 1,940 years ago, by one Marcus Annaeus Lucanus of Cordoba.)
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Response to Carel: I regret I know little of Lucanus sexual behaviour .. hey, it's not a tetrapod after all.
What killed the stag beetles? Darren Naish 2006
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Herein he appears to differ from all the atheists of antiquity; from Ocellus, Lucanus, Heraclitus, Democritus, Leucippus, Strato,
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And for many more "stag beetle" terms, see Maria Fremlin's Vernacular and dialect names of Stag Beetles Lucanus cervus in various countries, from which you will learn that the Swedish name is ek 'oak' + oxe 'bull'; you will also find well over a dozen German names, the last of which is the cognate Eichochs.
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_Silius Italicus_, _Lucanus_, _Lucretius_, _Ausonius_ and _Claudianus_: so the English tongue is mightily enriched, and gorgeouslie invested in rare ornaments and resplendent abiliments by sir _Philip Sidney_,
The Facts About Shakespeare William Allan Nielson
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'Lucanus an Appulus anceps: nam Venusinus arat finem sub utrumque colonus.'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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_, 'M. Annaeus Lucanus patrem habuit M. Annaeum M.lam ex provincia Baetica Hispaniae interioris Cordubensem equitem Romanum, illustrem inter suos, notum Romae et propter Senecam fratrem, clarum per omnes virtutes virum, et propter studium vitae quietioris ...
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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Of this sudden departing also, or rather fléeing of Iulius Cesar out of Britaine, Lucanus the poet maketh mention, reciting the saieng of Pompeius in an oration made by him vnto his souldiers, wherin he reprochfullie and disdainfullie reprooued the dooings of Cesar in
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (3 of 8) Raphael Holinshed
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Lucanus states that the men of Auvergne were conceited enough to consider themselves allied to the Trojan race.
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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