Word: viridis
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...Livy, "Venus ei candida veste apparuit," "Venus appeared to him with a white vest on." Another from the historian, "P. Scipio equestri genere natus," "Publius Scipio was born at a horse race." Here are two renderings of apparently cognate origin: "Caesaris bonas leges," "The bony legs of Caesar." "Nune viridi membra sub arbuto stratus," "He having now stretched his green limbs under the arbutus." We could add to the catalogue, "Sed damnatio, quid confert," or, as a Hoosier Freshman rendered it, "But, damnation, what good...
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