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Solers quilibet artifex instrumenta sua diligentissime curat, penicellos pictor; malleos incudesque faber ferrarius; miles equos, arma venator, auceps aves, et canes, Cytharam Cytharaedus,
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Birds, especially field fares, eat the berries with avidity; and a botanical designation of the tree is _aucuparia_, as signifying fruit used by the _auceps_, or bird catcher, with which to bait his snares.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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Non tu scis? hic noster quaestus aucupi simillimust. auceps quando concinnavit aream, offundit cibum; aves adsuescunt: necesse est facere sumptum qui quaerit lucrum; saepe edunt: semel si sunt captae, rem solvent aucupi. itidem his apud nos: aedes nobis area est, auceps sum ego, 219,220 esca est meretrix, lectus inlex est, amatores aves;
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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"Fistula dulce canit volucrem dum decipit auceps."
Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867
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"Fistula dulce canit volucrem dum decipit auceps."
The Burgomaster's Wife — Volume 04 Georg Ebers 1867
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"Fistula dulce canit volucrem dum decipit auceps."
The Burgomaster's Wife — Complete Georg Ebers 1867
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"Fistula dulce canit, volucrem cum decipit auceps."
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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"Fistula dulce canit, volucrem cum decipit auceps."
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1566-74) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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"Fistula dulce canit, volucrem cum decipit auceps."
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 21: 1573-74 John Lothrop Motley 1845
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"Fistula dulce canit, volucrem cum decipit auceps."
PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845
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