saxa

Just to let you know, the Georgetown Hoya comes from a chant that they used to do back in the day ‘hoya saxa’, or ‘what rocks’ in greek/latin.

College Mascots: Inspiring to Insipid | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2009

Hic naturis imperat,/Ut et saxa transferat/In decus gemmarum,

Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

Tu vero licet Orpheus sis, saxa sono testudinis emolliens, nisi plumbea eorum corda, auri vel argenti malleo emollias, &c. Salisburiensis Policrat. lib.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

“Ligures in terra cubant ut plurimum; plures ad cava, saxa speluncasque ab natura factas ubi tegantur corpora divertunt,” “The Ligurians mostly lie on the bare ground; many of them lodge in bare Caves and Caverns where they are sheltered from the inclemency of the weather.”

Travels through France and Italy 2004

Ibíque monstrantur rubra saxa albis respersa maculis, quòd simpliciores narrant saxis euenisse de abundantia lactis virginis ab vberibus eiecti.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

Patriarchæ, vbi etiam coaceruata iacent 12. saxa magna, quæ quidam autumant illic tumulasse Iacob, eò quòd Beniamin duodecimus sibi filius nascebatur ibidem.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

Qui Roman in media quaeris novus advena Roma, et Romae in Roma nil reperis media, aspice murorum, praeruptaque saxa, obruptaque ingenti vasta theatra situ.

languagehat.com: THE RUINS OF ROME. 2004

Ib韖ue monstrantur rubra saxa albis respersa maculis, qu騞 simpliciores narrant saxis euenisse de abundantia lactis virginis ab vberibus eiecti.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Patriarch�, vbi etiam coaceruata iacent 12. saxa magna, qu� quidam autumant illic tumulasse Iacob, e� qu騞 Beniamin duodecimus sibi filius nascebatur ibidem.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Dissiliunt auulsa iugis immania saxa, &c. H鎐 addere libuit, non qu騞 cuiquam h鎐 ignota esse existimemus; sed ne nos alij ignorare credant, atque ideo ad suas fabulas, quas hinc extruunt, confugere velle.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003