columbae

You used to say I was the one and only love in all the world for you and her. ubi quid dederam, quasi columbae pulli in ore ambae meo usque eratis, meo de studio studia erant vostra omnia, 210 usque adhaerebatis: quod ego iusseram, quod volueram faciebatis, quod nolebam ac votueram, de industria fugiebatis, neque conari id facere audebatis prius. nunc neque quid velim neque nolim facitis magni, pessumae.

Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

Tertullian (C.Valentinian. cap. iii) speaks of the Church as columbae domus, the house of the dove, and his words are sometimes quoted as exhibiting the use of such vessels in the third century.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

Vendunt se vel columbae vel canis vel piscis pretio.

Primitive Love and Love-Stories Henry Theophilus Finck 1890

[463: 2] "Nostrae columbae etiam domus simplex, in editis semper et apertis, et ad lucem."

The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution 1854

According to this gentleman, the crop, or craw, of a cuckoo does not lie before the sternum at the bottom of the neck, as in the _gallinae_, _columbae_, etc., but immediately behind it, on and over the bowels, so as to make a large protuberance in the belly.

The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2 Gilbert White 1756

\J bes volanc, & quafi columbae ad feneltras fuas? allcluia.

Diurnale Noviomense. ad usum regalis ecclesiæ S. Quintini accommodatum. Pars hiemalis (æstiva). 1774

omnibus inter uos! non murmura uestra columbae, brachia non hederae, non uincant oscula conchae. ludite: sed uigilis nolite exstinguere lychnos: omnia nocte uident, nil cras meminere lucernae.

Ludite Gallienus 1912

grypes Hyperborei pondera fulua soli. furatae Veneris prato per inane columbae

Epistle to Serena Claudian 1912

The same idea is expressed by Sedulius (Epist. xii) in the verses, "Sanctusque columbae Spiritus in specie Christum vestivit honore" -- "And the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove has robed

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

I believe that he was thinking of the lines ” 'Et variis albae junguntur saepe columbae;

Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887