Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word agna.
Examples
-
= For the sentiment compare _EP_ III iv 81-82 'haec [_sc_ laudanda uoluntas] facit ut ueniat pauper quoque gratus ad aras,/et placeat caeso non minus agna boue'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
-
'Vos quoque, felicis quondam nunc pauperis agri custodes, fertis munera vestra, lares: tunc vitula innumeros lustrabat caesa iuvencos; nunc agna exigui est hostia parva soli.'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
-
You have not baths attached to your bedroom, but you can always get a huge jug of hot water (agna caliente), and the man who cannot keep clean with a gallon of hot and a gallon of cold water each morning, and a sponge, is not accustomed to bathing.
The Spanish Nations and Their Increasing Interest To Us 1917
-
Another poem on a like theme shows a different and more fantastic, but scarcely less pleasing vein (v. 37): puella senibus dulcior mihi cycnis, agna Galaesi mollior Phalantini, concha Lucrini delicatior stagni, cui nec lapillos praeferas Erythraeos nec modo politum pecudis Indicae dentem nivesque primas liliumque non tactum; quae crine vicit Baetici gregis vellus
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
-
Puella senibus dulcior mihi cygnis, agna Galaesi mollior Phalantini, concha Lucrini delicatior stagni, 30 cui nec lapillos praeferas Erythraeos, nec modo politum pecudis Indicae dentem niuesque primas liliumque non tactum; quae crine uicit Baetici gregis uellus
In Memoriam Martial 1912
-
Agnes is said of agna a lamb, for she was humble and debonair as a lamb, or of agnos in Greek, which is to say debonair and piteous, for she was debonair and merciful.
The Golden Legend, vol. 2 1230-1298 1900
-
_R.m divinam facere_ seems to be the general expression, as in Cato, _R. R._ 83; or the particular victim is in the ablative, _e.g. agna Iovi facit_ (Flamen Dialis) in
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
-
Pro cithara velare caput; diftataque vcrba Pertulit, ut mos eft, & aperta palluit agna.
A. Persii Flacci et Dec. Jun. Juvenalis satirae: Ad optimas editiones ... Persius, Juvenal , Sulpicia, C . Lucilius, Gaius Lucilius, Johann August Ernesti, Societas Bipontina, Johann Albert Fabricius 1785
-
Fideicommifltnn quando tadte vel exprefle reliAum efl pro confervandis bonis in agna - tiene, feminas funt exclufas.
Adm. rev. p. F. Lucii Ferraris ... Prompta Bibliotheca canonica, juridica, moralis, theologica ... 1782
-
_ "o ego non felix, quam tu fugis, ut pavet acres agna lupos, capreaeque leones."
The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes Thomas Moore 1815
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.