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It always requires to be joined to a substantive, of which it shows the nature or quality—as lectio longa, a long lesson; magnus aper, a great boar; pinguis puer, a fat boy; macer puer, a lean boy.

From The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue by Leech, John

I haue redde also ye obligacyõ whiche was sent to saynt Gyles as dothe aper.

From The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion by Erasmus, Desiderius

Ego vitam agam sub altis Phrygiae columinibus, Vbi cerva silvicultrix, ubi aper nemorivagus?

From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

From these he naturally digressed into an agreeable disquisition on the Anglo-Saxons; and, after a little badinage on the Bill of Rights, flew off to an airy aper u of the French Revolution.

From The Voyage of Captain Popanilla by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Of Anton story who lyste to here In Egypt was he bornt as doyth aper.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See by Eley, C. King