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She was said to have kept her complexion perfect by bathing daily in the milk of five hundred asses and, like Cleopatra, was credited with a recipe for makeup, an oily concoction called pinguia Poppaeana, which was used by other women.
Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010
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Communis quoque populus, dum festus diebus intendere deberent deuotioni in templo, currit in hortis, in spectaculis, in tabernis vsque ad crapulam, et ebrietatem, et pinguia manducans et bibens, ac in bestiarum morem, luxuriam prauam exercens.
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Communis quoque populus, dum festus diebus intendere deberent deuotioni in templo, currit in hortis, in spectaculis, in tabernis vsque ad crapulam, et ebrietatem, et pinguia manducans et bibens, ac in bestiarum morem, luxuriam prauam exercens.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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"In omnibus secundis feriis dent illis ova quatuor uniquique clerico pinguia, cum bono _Sabrierio_."
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There is the hurrying throng of the streets of Rome with all its dangers and discomforts: nobis properantibus opstat unda prior, magno populus premit agmine lumbos qui sequitur; ferit hic cubito, ferit assere duro alter, at hic tignum capiti incutit, ille metretam. pinguia crura luto, planta mox undique magna calcor et in digito clavus mihi militis haeret. nonne vides quanto celebretur sportula fumo? centum convivae, sequitur sua quemque culina.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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"Comedite pinguia et bibite mulsum;" and Solomon's Song,
The Following of Christ. c. 1300-1361 1910
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Communis quoque populus, dum festus diebus intendere deberent deuotioni in templo, currit in hortis, in spectaculis, in tabernis vsque ad crapulam, et ebrietatem, et pinguia manducans et bibens, ac in bestiarum morem, luxuriam prauam exercens.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Neptune! et, cultor nemorura, cui pinguia O Ter centum nivei tondent dumeta juvend:
P. Virgilii Maronis opera: emendabat et notulis illustr. G. Wakefield Virgil, Publius Vergilius Maro 1796
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Arentisque rofas, aut igni pinguia multo Defruta, vel pfythia paflbs de vite tacemos»
P. Virgilii Maronis Opera varietate lectionis et perpetva adnotatione illvstrata, a Chr. Gottl ... 1788
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Interea foeda afpedu, ridendaque multo Pane tumet facies, aut pinguia Poppaeana Spirat, & hinc miferi vifcantur labra mariti« id moechum veniet lota cute. quando videri
A. Persii Flacci et Dec. Jun. Juvenalis satirae: Ad optimas editiones ... Persius, Juvenal , Sulpicia, C . Lucilius, Gaius Lucilius, Johann August Ernesti, Societas Bipontina, Johann Albert Fabricius 1785
biocon commented on the word pinguia
L pinguia = neuter pl. of pinguis (masc./fem.). See pinguis.
July 9, 2011