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to Hermlas and Kubuios (Diogenes Laertius). Censorius et Sapiens Cato Major was so called. ( B.C. 234-149.) Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles French imitations of Granucci, Malespini, and Campeggi, Italian tale-writers of the seventeenth century. Centaur (2 syl.). A huntsman. The Thessalian centaurs were half-horses, half-men. They were invited to a marriage feast, and, being intoxicated, behaved with great rudeness to the women. The Lapithae took the women's part, fell on the centaurs, and drove them out of the country. Feasts that Thessalian centaurs never knew.Cent-cyne One of the upper ten; a person of high birth, a descendant of the race of kings. (Anglo-Saxon cyne, royal; cyne-dom, a kingdom; also noble, renowned, chief.) His wife, by birth a Cent-cyne, went out as a day-servant.- Gaboriau: Promise of Marriage, chap. v. Cento Poetry made up of lines borrowed from established authors. Ausonius has a nuptial idyll composed
from verses selected from Virgil. (Latin, cento, patchwork.) |
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