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  • Sithonio regi ferus interceperat illam 25 hostis, et ereptas uictor habebat opes, donec fluminea deuecta Vitellius unda intulit exposito milite signa Getis. at tibi, progenies alti fortissima Donni, uenit in aduersos impetus ire uiros; 30 nec mora: conspicuus longe fulgentibus armis fortia ne possint facta latere caues, ingentique gradu contra ferrumque locumque saxaque brumali grandine plura subis. nec te missa super iaculorum turba moratur, 35 nec quae uipereo tela cruore madent:

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Qm, dum amnes uUi rumpuntur fontibus, et dum Vere madent udo terrae ac pluvialibus auflris,

    P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796

  • Syrtes nobilium madent cruore, Et Beflus peperit ...

    The Itinerary of John Leland the Antiquary: Published from the Original MS. in the Bodleian ... 1769

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  • Madent means wet, moist (OED).

    January 23, 2012

  • Will madent create the stir moist did??

    January 23, 2012

  • eewwwwww!

    January 28, 2012

  • Madent may be wet, but it will never be moist.

    January 29, 2012