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A flaxen hair; golden hair was even in great account, for which Virgil commends Dido, Nondum sustulerat flavum Proserpinina crinem, Et crines nodantur in aurum.
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Another complains of a most sweet wife, a young wife, Nondum sustulerat flavum Proserpina crinem, such a wife as no mortal man ever had, so good a wife, but she is now dead and gone, laethaeoque jacet condita sarcophago.
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Si bibit sedens super equum, infundit antequam bibat, super collum vel crinem equi.
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Si bibit sedens super equum, infundit antequam bibat, super collum vel crinem equi.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The precept: "Ungues Mercurio, barbam Iove, Cypride crinem," {272} ridiculed by
The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism Franz Cumont
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"Subde caput, corpusque simul, simul elue crinem," -- one finds as kindly a reception from the water as in childish days, and as safe a shelter in the green dressing-room afterwards; and the patient wherry floats near by, in readiness for a reëmbarkation.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various
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Iliaca ambustis ossibus arua premit. illi caeruleum Panope matertera crinem
Epicedion Drusi Anonymous 1912
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Ismaraque et quondam genialis litora Naxi. tunc caras iniere fores comitique canoro225 hic chelyn, hic flauam maculoso nebrida tergo, hic thyrsos, hic plectra ferunt; hic enthea lauro tempora, Minoa crinem premit ille corona.
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Pierius uotum iuuenis cupit. hanc ego formae egregium mirata decus cui gloria patrum et generis certabat honos, tellure cadentem excepi fouique sinu; nec colla genasque110 comere nec pingui crinem deducere amomo cessauit mea, nate, manus. mihi dulcis imago prosiluit. celsae procul aspice frontis honores suggestumque comae.
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Me quoque nunc similis stimulat furor edere uersu tempora, cum duris uersare ligonibus arua conueniat, cum ueliuolo dare carbasa ponto et cum uiticomo crinem tondere Lyaeo.
Prologue to the Aratea Avienus 1912
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