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In turn the beak or muzzle was so named because to peck or gnaw at something was in Latin rodere.
history Charles Hodgson 2010
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Sed intense dolore superante animum ejus, conversus in rabiem furoris, coepit se rodere totum.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator Various
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Sir, -- In your Sixth Number, p. 93, J.E.M. wishes to know whence the motto, "Si quis amicum absentum rodere delectat," &c. is taken.
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"Si quis amiecum absentem rodere delectat ad hanc mensam accumbere indignus est."
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By the way, is _radix_ perhaps derived from [Sanskrit: rad] (_rad_), a tooth (from the fang-like form of roots), whence _rodere_ and possibly _radius_?
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* Oderit rixas et jurgia, praesertimque inter eruditos, ac turpe esse dicebat, viros indubitate doctos canina rabie famam vicissim suam rodere ac lacerare scriptis trucibus, tanquam vilissimos de plebe cerdones in angiportis sese luto ac stercore conspurcantes.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I. 1634-1716 1823
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Worcester, a person every way qualified for the high dignity he was invested with, and of a most excelling judgment in all points of human and divine literature; who though, in his preface to his Vindication of the Trinity, quotes this sentence against the manner of the treatment the two antagonists gave each other; viz. Oderit rixas et jurgia, praesertimque inter eruditos, ac turpe esse dicebat, viros indubitate doctos canina rabie famam vicissim suam rodere ac lacerare scriptis trucibus, tanquam vilissimos de plebe cerdones in angiportis sese luto ac stercore conspurcantes.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I. 1634-1716 1823
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