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- noun an inland sea in northwestern Turkey; linked to the Black Sea by the Bosporus and linked to the Aegean by the Dardanelles
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Examples
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He took, therefore, measure of that proportion of soil which was now become adequate to all his future purposes, and he lay dead on the ground, a great (though not a living) example of the truth of that observation of Horace: Tu secanda marmora
VIII. A Receipt to Regain the Lost Affections of a Wife. Book II 1917
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The rich man looks into the future, and makes contracts which he may never live to see executed (v. 17 -- "Tu secanda marmora Locas sub ipsum funus"); meantime
The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace 65 BC-8 BC Horace 1847
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FuiBse municipium, docent marmora a Capta vhik laureahm.
Doctrina nvmorvm vetervm conscripta a Josepho Eckhel ... Emerich Thomas Hohler , Joseph Eckhel, Anton von Steinbüchel, Aubin Louis Millin de Grandmaison 1792
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Duce me retro nefcendent refonis marmora collibus Et longo procul ordine,
Matthiae Casimiri Sarbievii e Societate Jesu, Carmina Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Joannes Michael van der Ketten 1791
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NeuJpudeat Tacros Mentita vultus frangere marmora:
Matthiae Casimiri Sarbievii e Societate Jesu, Carmina Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Joannes Michael van der Ketten 1791
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Aramque & folio Solis, & aureis Fingent marmora liliis.
Matthiae Casimiri Sarbievii e Societate Jesu, Carmina Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Joannes Michael van der Ketten 1791
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Praeterea vario radiantia marmora ritu Donat, & a bimari venientia faxa Corintho.
Matthiae Casimiri Sarbievii e Societate Jesu, Carmina Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Joannes Michael van der Ketten 1791
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Tuo feveras peAore marmora Puxire venat» marmora rupibus Decifa, quas Getula cslebs Deucalio fuper arva jecit*
Matthiae Casimiri Sarbievii e Societate Jesu, Carmina Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Joannes Michael van der Ketten 1791
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Pullau proceres. i Jam accurrit, qur marmora donet,
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T VN t A t, dida marmora, in tabu* las diflTcaa, cx Gr TA«rvHM, vc videtur.
Glossarium manuale ad scriptores mediae et infimae Latinitatis Charles Du Fresne Du Cange 1778
hernesheir commented on the word marmora
Danish blue cheese also known as Danablu. Marmora means marble, and refers to the charateristic blue veins of this creamy cheese with a salty metallic flavor.
January 20, 2009