Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of semi-aquatic water-bugs, typical of the family Veliidæ.
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Examples
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He was buried by a decree of the people within the city near the place called Velia, and all his family were given the privilege of burial there.
Plutarch's Lives, Volume I 46-120? Plutarch 1839
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'Velia's fountains,' a lake in the Umbrian hills beyond Reate.
The Aeneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor 70 BC-19 BC Virgil 1902
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Elak wants her to say, but Velia smiled and shook her head.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Elak Of Atlantis - Henry Kuttner Blue Tyson 2008
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"And I'll give mine," Velia broke in, coming lightly up the hill toward them.
Superhero Prose Fiction: Elak - Elak Of Atlantis Blue Tyson 2008
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Elak wants her to say, but Velia smiled and shook her head.
Superhero Prose Fiction: Elak - Elak Of Atlantis Blue Tyson 2008
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"And I'll give mine," Velia broke in, coming lightly up the hill toward them.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Elak Of Atlantis - Henry Kuttner Blue Tyson 2008
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Velia, who was the first to discover that most ingenious device of refuting hypotheses by the method of self-inconsistency, that same Zeno was — so Plato asserts — by far the most striking in appearance of all the men of his generation.
The Defense Apuleius 2008
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Velia, who was the first to discover that most ingenious device of refuting hypotheses by the method of self-inconsistency, that same Zeno was — so Plato asserts — by far the most striking in appearance of all the men of his generation.
The Defense Apuleius 2008
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Passing the residence of the Rex Sacrorum on the Velia, Gaius Fonteius spoke again.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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From where he stood at the top of the Velia, Octavian could see down into the Forum Romanum and beyond it to the Capitoline Mount; if he turned to face the other way, he could look across the swamps of the Palus Ceroliae all the way along the Sacra Via to the Servian Walls.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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