Word: ora
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...says the Collegian, is unusually prolific this year. Some of them are startling in their originality and ingenuity, others are completely bewildering in the wild luxuriance of imagination which they betoken on the part of the translator. For instance, Virgil is made to say in "Impositi rogis juvenes ante ora parentum," "And the boys were imposed upon by the rogues in the very teeth of their parents." Another from the same source, "Hunc Polydorum auri," "A hunk of gold belonging to Polydorus." Horace fares little better when the verse " Parcus deorum cultus et infrequent" is rendered, "The park...