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And they gave a name also to each of the members of their flock, such as Meliboeus, and Jeannot, and Robin, and Blanchette.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843 Various
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Meliboeus happen to be on the same farm, they are not sentimentally polite to each other.
Adam Bede 2004
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Meliboeus, whose calf it is, may lawfully kill his calf at home, and burn any part of it that he thinks fit.
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The plaint of Meliboeus for those who must leave their homes to barbarians and migrate to Africa and Britain to begin life again is so poignant that one wonders in what mood Octavian read it.
Vergil Frank, Tenney, 1876-1939 1922
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Is Meliboeus speaking in person and quoting his own poem?
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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It has been suggested with some plausibility that Meliboeus is no other than C. C.lpurnius Piso, the distinguished noble round whom in 65
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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Calpurnius Siculus begins (Meliboeus loquitur), 'Quid tacitus, Corydon?'
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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O how shall my songs trip in slender verse then, Meliboeus, if ever men shall say of me 'He has a house on yonder mountain'.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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An ingenious suggestion [385] has been made that he is no other than Calpurnius Piso, the supposed Meliboeus of Calpurnius Siculus.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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Moeris pastores et Meliboeus erant, dulcia iactantes alterno carmina uersu, 100
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