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- noun In horticulture, a branch laid down in the process of layering.
- noun In botany, same as
bulblet .
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= At _Met_ II 38-39 the same phrase with a different meaning: (Phaethon to his father) 'pignora da, genitor, per quae tu uera propago/credar, et hunc animis _errorem_ [' doubt '] _detrahe_ nostris*.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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'Nam neque nos agere hoc patriai tempore iniquo possumus aequo animo nec Memmi clara propago talibus in rebus communi desse saluti.'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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Pauli haeres, cujus vocabulum trahit, Martiae Papyriae Matris Africani vera et germana propago.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Latin propaganda feminine ablative gerundive of propago
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Gracchorum stirps, soboles Scipionum, Pauli haeres, cujus vocabulum trahit, Martiae Papyriae Matris Africani vera et germana propago.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Nam cum cerebri sit propago qusedam facies, ad quam sensuum omnium organa deflectant, quo in loco animse viHus divinas suas vires exerat, quid inconveni - entius fuisset, & protoplasta indignius, quam membra ilia pecuina et abjecta, cum partibus adeo nobilibus et divinis confundere?
Illustrations of Sterne: with other essays and verses Ferriar, John, 1761-1815 1812
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O curvae in terris animae et caelestium inanes, quid iuvat hoc, templis nostros immittere mores et bona dis ex hac scelerata ducere pulpa? haec sibi corrupto casiam dissolvit olivo et Calabrum coxit vitiato murice vellus, haec bacam conchae rasisse et stringere venas ferventis massae crudo de pulvere iussit. peccat et haec, peccat, vitio tamen utitur. at vos dicite, pontifices, in sancto quid facit aurum? nempe hoc quod Veneri donatae a virgine pupae. quin damus id superis, de magna quod dare lance non possit magni Messalae lippa propago? compositum ius fasque animo sanctosque recessus mentis et incoctum generoso pectus honesto: haec cedo ut admoveam templis et farre litabo.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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If these Frank gentry continue directing their course upon the Imperial city, being, as they are, — — — ‘propago
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nam centum aut plures flumina nostra tenent: ne me sperne, precor, tantum, Troiana propago: 65
The Loves of Rivers Ovid 1912
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Hinc redle concludi pofle augurOr, cum nullum pofiea Atlantum in hifloria fuperfit vefiigium, praeter Atlau* tes illos barbaros, qui Herodoti aevo circa Atlantem M« fc continebant, nee tam Adantum noftrorum poftcri, quam potius Phuteorum propago, a vicino monte no - men adepti vidcntur, integram Atlantum gentem poft dcvidtioncm fuam cum Phceniciis coloniis unum in po - pulum coaluifTe, ac non folum oppidis illis innumeris implendis plurimum contulifle, fed etiam toti Mauro - rum genti ortum dcdifle cum Phcenicibus ALIISQUE CANANAEIS fugiti vis fimul.
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"... nothing is produced without its seed or propago, but I conceive there is a difference in treating of a plant being produced from a seed, and holding the necessity that every expansion of that plant should take in a manner exactly analogous."
-The Horticultural Register, Sir Joseph Paxton (1831)
July 13, 2015