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Example Sentences

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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