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  • During the French occupation a Lyce, was established in 1917.

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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

  • _Neobole_, sweete _Phillis_, and the faire _Lyce_ _Tyburts_ & _Pyra_, with their harps singing and making a most pleasant noyse.

    Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

  • 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 Showerman, Grant, 1870-1935 1922

  • To Cynara the Fates accord but a few years; a wanton Lyce laughs, cheats her adorers, and outlives the crow.

    Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship James Branch Cabell 1918

  • I have also some difficulty to believe that he could produce such a group of conceits [7] as appear in the verses to Lyce, in which he claims for this ancient personage as good a right to be assimilated to heaven, as nymphs whom other poets have flattered; he therefore ironically ascribes to her the attributes of the sky, in such stanzas as this:

    Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • Lyce, the gods have heard my prayers, as gods will hear the dutiful,

    Echoes from the Sabine Farm Roswell Martin Field 1885

  • Poor Lyce indeed! what had she done to be so scourged?

    Horace William Tuckwell 1874

  • Which flings now the flagging sea-wave on the obstinate sandstone reef, is at once Horatian and Tennysonian; and his "Oh! where is all thy loveliness?" in the later Ode to Lyce has caught marvellously the minor key of tender memory which relieves the brutality of that ruthless flagellation.

    Horace William Tuckwell 1874

  • There follows a savage assault on one Lyce, an ancient beauty who had lost her youthful charms, but kept up her youthful airs:

    Horace William Tuckwell 1874

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