Word: caecilius
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They could choose either Caecilius Day Lewis ("e Collegio Wadhami") or Clive S. Lewis ("socius Collegii Beatae Mariae Magda'enae"). Of England's two distinguished, unrelated Lewises, they picked Cecil (C. Day Lewis, the poet) over Clive (C. S. Lewis, the Anglican theologian, author of the Screwtape Letters), 194 votes to 173. Neither candidate seemed to be pining for office. C. S. Lewis (TIME Cover, Sept. 8, 1947) was off on a long hike; C. Day Lewis was having a drink in his London flat...
...James Hazen Hyde, wife of the founder of potent Equitable Life Assurance Society, bought the magnificently wooded Villa Serbelloni on the high promontory which cuts Lake Como, most famed Italian lake, into three branches. Villas on this site have passed through many hands, including those of Gaius Caecilius Pliny, King Theodoric of the Goths, King Liutprand of the Lombards, the Counts Sfondrati. Recently it has been an hotel...
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