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The larva lives chiefly in water; it may be driven away by smoke; gnats; libelulla; æstros bovis; bolts: musca chamæleon; vomitoria.
The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes Erasmus Darwin 1766
yarb commented on the word libelulla
He had prepared one of those phrases that sound right in dreams but lame in lucid life: "I saw you circling above me on libelulla wings"...
- Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor
June 4, 2008