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  • [336] _Canere_ is used in different ways: _tubicen canit signum_, 'the trumpeter blows the signal;' _tubicen canit_, 'the trumpeter blows

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • Quam suave canit! verbum audax dixi, omnium quos vidi formosissimus, utinam amare me dignetur!

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • _Sat_ I x 42-43 'Pollio regum/facta canit pede ter percusso [' in iambic trimeter ']'.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • 'Ecce canit formas alius iactusque pilarum, hic artem nandi praecipit, ille trochi,' it would follow that the whole poem had been published before the death of Augustus, for the descriptions of ball-play and swimming occur in v. 165-171 and 420-431.

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • Quidquoque Sedulius, vel quid canit ipse Invencus,

    Bibliomania in the Middle Ages Frederick Somner Merryweather

  • The same construction at _Am_ II iv 25 'dulce canit flectitque _facillima_ uocem'.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Mu canit, Ar numerat, Geo ponderat, Ast colit astra.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

  • Maenalides teneras ducunt per sacra choreas, tibia laeta canit, pendet sacer hircus ab ulmo et iam nudatis ceruicibus exuit exta.

    Redeunt Saturnia Regna Anonymous 1912

  • Maeoniumque senem Romano prouocat ore, forsitan illius nemoris latuisset in umbra, 25 quod canit, et sterili tantum cantasset auena ignotus populis, si Maecenate careret. qui tamen haut uni patefecit limina uati nec sua Vergilio permisit carmina soli.

    Laus Pisonis Anonymous 1912

  • C. ab Ioue principium, si quis canit aethera, sumat, si quis Atlantiaci pondus molitur Olympi: at mihi, qui nostras praesenti numine terras perpetuamque regit iuuenili robore pacem, 85 laetus et augusto felix adrideat ore.

    A Singing Match Calpurnius 1912

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