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Linneus asserts, that three of the flies, called musca vomitoria, will consume the body of a dead horse, as soon as a lion can; Syst.
The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes Erasmus Darwin 1766
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The familiar musca domestica, the yellow - striped scathophaga stercoraria, the larger calliphora vomitoria, and a hundred others.
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For he that doth wrong must look to be wronged again; habet et musca splenem, et formicae sua bills inest.
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Intra hanc Ecclesiam nunquam musca, vel aranea, aut huiusmodi immundi vermiculi nascuntur, quod similiter per diuinum accidit miraculum: nam antè replebatur Ecclesia talibus immunditiis, et totus conuentus recederet ad construendum Ecclesiam in alio loco.
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Intra hanc Ecclesiam nunquam musca, vel aranea, aut huiusmodi immundi vermiculi nascuntur, quod similiter per diuinum accidit miraculum: nam ant� replebatur Ecclesia talibus immunditiis, et totus conuentus recederet ad construendum Ecclesiam in alio loco.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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In Plautus, an entertainment free from unwelcome guests is called _hospitium sine muscis_, an entertainment without flies; and in another place of the same author, an inquisitive and busy man, who pries and insinuates himself into the secrets of others, is termed _musca_.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 405, December 19, 1829 Various
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Investigation had revealed the presence of a perfect, if somewhat withered, specimen of the _musca domestica_ imbedded in the vegetation which I had been proposing to smoke.
Jonah and Co. Dornford Yates 1922
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D'Aguanno 10.69 gives an account of two instances of living larvæ of the musca sarcophaga in the ears of children.
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D'Aguanno gives an account of two instances of living larvae of the musca sarcophaga in the ears of children.
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In the regular-season finale, musca forged a five-way tie at the top of the GTUS standings.
The Seattle Times 2011
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