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Biting off a large quid of black twist, he said: "You did wrong, captain, to mix cheese with plums. White cheese is never safe unless you know whence it comes. Quien sabe, it may have been from leche de Capra and becoming capricious " "Avast, there!" I cried. "I have no mind for moralizing."
I have long held the view that such is often the case, and I have myself observed several instances of the, at least I may say, apparent fact. "Many years ago there was a very fine male of the Capra megaceros in the gardens of the Zoological Society.
A family of almost equal fame was the group of violin makers of Cremona, the Stradivari. The founder of the house, Antonio, began his life romantically enough. When he was a youngster of seventeen or eighteen, he fell in love with Francesca Capra, a widow of a man who had been assassinated. She was nine or ten years older than Stradivari, and they were married on July 4, 1667.
In the Woodwardian Museum there is a portion of a skull of an ibex probably Capra sibirica which was found in the drift gravel at Fulbourne. Wild sheep are unknown. The horse occurs in the peat; but whether wild or tame, who can tell?
Is it not proof that they were shepherds that they chose the Parilia, or feast of the goddess of the shepherds, in preference to all other days, for the founding of the city; that a penalty even to this day is assessed in terms of cattle or sheep, according to the ancient custom; that our most ancient money, the as of cast copper, always bore the effigy of some domestic animal; that whenever a town was founded the limits of the walls and the gates were laid off with a plough drawn by a bull and a cow yoked together; that when the Roman people are purified it is done by driving around them a boar, a ram and a bull, whence the sacrifice is known as the Suovetaurilia; that we have many family names among us derived from both the great and small cattle: thus from small cattle Porcius, Ovinius, Caprilius, and from great cattle Equitius, Taurius, and some of our families have received from cattle cognomens which signify for what they are esteemed, as, for instance, the Annius family are called Capra, the Statilius family are called Taurus and the Pomponius family are called Vitulus, and so many others are derived from cattle.
For in the days when Florence disputed Val d'Arno and the plains of Empoli with many nobles, the Conti di Capraja lorded it here, and, as the Florentines said: "Per distrugger questa Capra non ci vuol altro che un Lupo."
The style of this work is much more pleasing than that of the Latin Language. It is brisk and pointed, and shows none of the signs of old age. He also attempts one or two etymologies; the best is via which he tells us is for veha, and villa for vehula; capra from capere is less plausible.
I have long held the view that such is often the case, and I have myself observed several instances of the, at least I may say, apparent fact. "Many years ago there was a very fine male of the Capra megaceros in the gardens of the Zoological Society.
In the line before the last we should probably read -multarum leges divumque hominumque. Os olig' alethe, polla de pseuon legei Tuchon, otan de me, tuche oioichetai This is turned by the Latin translator into the following diatribe against the casters of horoscopes: -Astrologorum signa in caelo quaesit, observat, Iovis Cum capra aut nepa aut exoritur lumen aliquod beluae.
Capra aegagrus, crest of the male; sexual difference in the colour of. Capreolus Sibiricus subecaudatus. Caprice, common to man and animals. Caprimulgus, noise made by the males of some species of, with their wings. Caprimulgus virginianus, pairing of. Carabidae. Carbonnier, on the natural history of the pike; on the relative size of the sexes in fishes; courtship of Chinese Macropus.
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