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And he had seen the colors of their feathers and the shape of the pale crescent on their foreheads the mark a man named Say had noticed many years before, when he named this swallow in Latin, lunifrons, because luna means moon and frons means front.
Degenerant, sc. a reliquorum virtute, i.e. the Narisci and Quadi are not unworthy, do not fall short of the bravery of their neighbors. the Marcomanni. Peragitur. Al. protegitur, porrigitur, &c. Different words are supplied as the subject of peragitur, e.g. Passow iter.; Rit. cursus; K. frons. The last is preferable. Marobodui. Cf. Ann. 2, 62; Suet. Tib. 37.
The word effrontery, which comes to us from the French effronterie, is really the same expression as the vulgar terms face and cheek, meaning "impudence." For the word comes from the Latin frons, "the forehead." An example of a word which was quite good English, and then came to be used as slang in a special sense, and then in this same special sense became good English again, is grit.
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