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Then the full significance of my blunder came to me and I felt like the classic capricornus, meaning goat.
The Secrets of the German War Office Dr. Armgaard Karl Graves
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He finds one day "a Scarabaus capricornus odoratus," which he takes "to be mentioned by Monfetus, folio 150.
Appreciations, with an Essay on Style Walter Pater 1866
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