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epulis
/ ɛˈpuːlɪs /
noun
- pathol a swelling of the gum, usually as a result of fibrous hyperplasia
- vet science a benign tumour attached to the jaw of an animal, esp a dog
Example Sentences
As Silius Italicus says:— “Exhilarare viris convivia cæde Mos olim, et miscere epulis spectacula dira.”
Cicero, in the Brutus, expresses a wish that these songs still existed in his own day; 'utinam exstarent illa carmina, quae multis saeculis ante suam aetatem in epulis esse cantitata a singulis convivis de clarorum virorum laudibus in Originibus scriptum reliquit Cato.'
Tune epulis adeo es, soror, officiosa juvandis, Et sinis has, inquit, Martha, perire dapes?
Si non aurea sunt juvenum simulacra per ædes, Lampadas igniferas manibus retinentia dextris, Lumina nocturnis epulis ut suppeditentur, Nec domus argento fulget auroque renidet, Nec citharæ reboant laqueata aurataque tecta; Quum tamen inter se, prostrati in gramine molli, Propter aquæ rivum, sub ramis arboris altæ, Non magnis opibus jucunde corpora curant: Præsertim, quum tempestas arridet, et anni Tempora conspargunt viridantes floribus herbas: Nec calidæ citius decedunt corpore febres, Textilibus si in picturis, ostroque rubenti, Jaceris, quam si plebeiâ in veste cubandum est.”—II.
The passage rather seems to imply that they had been in writing, “Utinam extarent illa carmina, quæ multis sæculis ante suam ætatem in epulis esse cantata a singulis convivis de clarorum virorum laudibus, in Originibus scriptum reliquit Cato”!81.Lectures on Literature, Lect.
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