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- noun plural Vast woodland plains of South America.
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Con esto, quiero decir que en la escritura actual no hay tantas églogas, sonetos, madrigales ni silvas, por poner un par de ejemplos.
veruscio Diary Entry veruscio 2009
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'Si canimus silvas, silvae sint _consule_ dignae.'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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'Adiecere bonae paulo plus artis Athenae, scilicet ut vellem curvo dignoscere rectum atque inter silvas Academi quaerere verum.'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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Or Silvester is said of silvas and of trahens, that is to say he was drawing wild men and hard unto the faith.
The Golden Legend, vol. 2 1230-1298 1900
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As the exegesis of the Valentinian schools became the mother of numerous self-contradictory Christologies, so the same result was threatened here -- "doctrinæ inolescentes in silvas iam exoleverunt Gnosticorum."
History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890
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Croker's Boswell, p. 'Non illic urbes, non tu mirabere silvas:
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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_, Varro, _L. L._ v. 36, "quos agros non colebant propter silvas aut id genus, ubi pecus possit pasci, et possidebant, ab usu salvo saltus nominarunt."
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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The hilly regions are very wild, although none of the mountains are very high, and the woods are magnificent; but a great part of the land consists of vast grassy plains, which are called llanos, or campos, or silvas.
Martin Rattler 1859
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Prata, arva, ingentes silvas saltusque paludesque 5
The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus 1855
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Milites qui e Manjurico deserto exierunt, bellando silvas, campos et oppida Sinensis imperii captarunt.
Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society George Henry Borrow 1842
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