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  • Well-known examples include the discovery of the naked mole rat and Tiktallik rosae.

    Assessing Causality 2008

  • The threatened Ozark cavefish, Amblyopsis rosae, is closely linked to the endangered gray bat.

    Ecoregions of Iowa and Missouri (EPA) 2008

  • Scoltzii laudatur conditus rosae caninae fructus ante prandium et caenem ad magnitudinem castaneae.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • In the third hour after the sun is risen to take in air from some high and open place with a ventilation of rosae moschatae and fresh violets, and to stir the earth with infusion of wine and mint.

    Uncollected Prose 2006

  • Iuppiter et toto concepit pectore flammas: emicuere rosae violaeque et molle cyperon, albaque de viridi riserunt lilia prato: talis humus Venerem molles clamavit in herbas, candidiorque dies secreto favit amori (127);

    Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

  • In the third hour after the sun is risen to take in air from some high and open place with a ventilation of rosae moschatae and fresh violets, and to stir the earth with infusion of wine and mint.

    Uncollected Prose 1832

  • Their churches and monasteries (_rosae inter spinas_, says the historian) were scattered over the principal towns, Cordova retaining seven, Toledo six, etc.; and their clergy were allowed to display the costume, and celebrate the pompous ceremonial, of the Romish communion.

    The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1 William Hickling Prescott 1827

  • Quis sublime genus formamque insignis Etruscae nesciat? haud quamquam proprio mihi cognita uisu, sed decus eximium famae par reddit imago, uultibus et similis natorum gratia monstrat. nec uulgare genus; fascis summamque curulem115 frater et Ausonios ensis mandataque fidus signa tulit, cum prima trucis amentia Dacos impulit et magno gens est damnata triumpho. sic quicquid patrio cessatum a sanguine, mater reddidit, obscurumque latus clarescere uidit120 conubio gauisa domus. nec pignora longe; quippe bis ad partus uenit Lucina manuque ipsa leui grauidos tetigit fecunda labores. felix a! si longa dies, si cernere uultus natorum uiridisque genas tibi iusta dedissent125 stamina! sed media cecidere abrupta iuuenta: gaudia florentisque manu scidit Atropos annos; qualia pallentis declinant lilia culmos pubentesque rosae primos moriuntur ad austros, aut ubi uerna nouis exspirat purpura pratis.

    To Claudius Etruscus on the Death of his Father 1912

  • Quis etiam prandiorum et caenarum laboratas magnitudines Romanus populus sensit; cum quaesitissimae dapes non gustu sed difficultatibus aestimarentur; miracula avium, longinqui maris pisces, aheni temporis poma, aestivae nives, hybernae rosae]

    History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 Edward Gibbon 1765

  • Quis etiam prandiorum et caenarum laboratas magnitudines Romanus populus sensit; cum quaesitissimae dapes non gustu sed difficultatibus aestimarentur; miracula avium, longinqui maris pisces, aheni temporis poma, aestivae nives, hybernae rosae]

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

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