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Lizard, through such forms as _lesarde_, _lezard_, _lagarto_, _lacerto_, is from the Latin _lacertus_, a lizard; while closely related is the word alligator by way of _lagarto_, _aligarto_, to alligator.
The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year William Beebe 1919
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They would have laughed at exaggerations such as (287) -- cuius non militis ensem agnoscam? caelumque tremens cum lancea transit, dicere non fallar quo sit vibrata lacerto.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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_Tertium qui vocatur fullo, albis guttis, dissectum utrique lacerto adalligant_, says the text.
Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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[626] "Optimus excusso _Leucus Rhemusque_ lacerto."
The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) Christopher Marlowe 1578
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ipsum me iugula, lenior hostis ero. possum ego in alterius positam spectare lacerto?
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