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  • A. scilicet omnis eum tellus, gens omnis adorat, diligiturque deis, quem sic taciturna uerentur arbuta, cuius iners audito nomine tellus incaluit floremque dedit; cui silua uocato110 densat odore comas, stupefacta regerminat arbos.

    A Singing Match Calpurnius 1912

  • Romanos ad templa deum duxere triumphos. hic uer adsiduum atque alienis mensibus aestas: bis grauidae pecudes, bis pomis utilis arbos.

    Italia, io te saluto Vergil 1912

  • A. me quoque facundo comitatus Apolline Caesar respiciat, montis neu dedignetur adire, quos et Phoebus amat, quos Iupiter ipse tuetur: in quibus augustos uisurae saepe triumphos90 laurus fructificant uicinaque nascitur arbos.

    A Singing Match Calpurnius 1912

  • These passages are ‘golden branches’ set in an alien stock—non sua seminat arbos.

    Preface 1912

  • Softened by tender thoughts, the hero admired the sweet child before him, reflecting that glory is only a semi-happiness, that 'tis sad to grow old all alone in your greatness, like Moses, and that this fragile flower of the North transplanted into the little garden at Tarascon would brighten its monotony, and be sweeter to see and breathe than that everlasting baobab, _arbos gigantea_, diminutively confined in the mignonette pot.

    Tartarin On The Alps Alphonse Daudet 1868

  • "To the Club of the Alpines, my baobab (_arbos gigantea_) to stand on the chimney-piece of the hall of sessions;"

    Tartarin On The Alps Alphonse Daudet 1868

  • It is but fair to say that these were none of full growth; indeed, the cocoa-palms were no bigger than beet root and the baobab (arbos gigantea -- "giant tree," you know) was easily enough circumscribed by a window-pot; but, notwithstanding this, it was rather a sensation for Tarascon, and the townsfolk who were admitted on Sundays to the honour of contemplating Tartarin's baobab, went home chokeful of admiration.

    Tartarin of Tarascon Alphonse Daudet 1868

  • Deprenduntur aquae; quaeque imminet effugit arbos.

    The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I Aphra Behn 1664

  • Vicina invitct decedere ripa calori j Obviaque hofpitiis teneat frondentibus arbos.

    P. Virgilii Maronis opera: emendabat et notulis illustr. G. Wakefield Virgil, Publius Vergilius Maro 1796

  • Quotque in flore novo pomis fe fertilis arbos Induerat, totidem audumno matura tenebat Illc etiam fcras in verfum diftulit ulmos,

    P. Virgilii Maronis opera: emendabat et notulis illustr. G. Wakefield Virgil, Publius Vergilius Maro 1796

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