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    compromise, Lycidas was stoned to death by "those in the council and those outside, [who] were so enraged.... [W]ith all the uproar in Salamis over Lycidas, the...
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    known as Cramer's swallowtail, the Lycidas swallowtail, and the yellow-trailed swallowtail. The wingspan of Battus lycidas can reach 10–11 millimetres (0...
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    Sepia lycidas, commonly known as the kisslip cuttlefish, is a species of cuttlefish within the genus Sepia. They are also classified under the family...
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    Maratus (redirect from Lycidas (spider))
    M. furvus was first described in 1992 in the genus Lycidas, becoming part of Maratus when Lycidas was synonymized in 2012. Otto and Hill consider this...
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    enter the Olympic Games under the name of Lycidas, a friend who once saved his life. Unknown to Megacles, Lycidas is in love with Aristaea, whose hand is...
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    Eclogue 9 (section Lycidas)
    countrymen Lycidas and Moeris. Moeris has been turned out of his farm and is taking some kid goats to town for the new occupant; young Lycidas is astonished...
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  • Althea, from Prison") that John Milton later alluded to in his own poem "Lycidas". Althea Braithwaite (1940–2020), English children's author, illustrator...
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  • had wide appeal, it is now sometimes considered dead. “Lycidas” Written by John Milton, "Lycidas" is a pastoral elegy that first appeared in a 1638 collection...
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  • Castiarina lycida is a species of Australian beetle in the jewel beetle family, Buprestidae, described in 2005. "Castiarina Gory & Laporte, 1838". bie...
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    feeding on Laurus nobilis and Nectandra venulosa. Orecta lycidas lycidas (Brazil) Orecta lycidas eos (Burmeister, 1878) (Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil and...
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    Cambridge, Milton was on good terms with Edward King; he later dedicated "Lycidas" to him. Milton also befriended theologian Roger Williams, tutoring Williams...
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    enter the Olympic Games under the name of Lycidas, a friend who once saved his life. Unknown to Megacles, Lycidas is in love with Aristaea, whose hand is...
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  • with two friends, to a harvest feast, meets the goatherd, Lycidas. To humour the poet Lycidas sings a love song of his own, and the other replies with...
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    Anglican bishops having the shepherd's crook among their insignia (see also Lycidas). In both cases, the implication is that the faithful are the "flock" who...
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    trompet shrill before" Neptune and Amphitrite. And in Milton (1637), "Lycidas" v. 89, "The Herald of the Sea" refers to Triton. Gianlorenzo Bernini sculpted...
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    Kretania trappi 78i as lycidas Trapp, 1863 Conservation status Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia...
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    Retrieved 2016-09-24. In Vergilius Maro (1770) John Milton, John (1637). "Lycidas". The Milton Reading Room. Archived from the original on 2014-10-25. Retrieved...
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    (Greek mythology) entry in Collins English Dictionary. Edwin L. Brown, "The Lycidas of Theocritus Idyll 7", Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, 1981:59–100...
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    Milton, John and W. Bell. 1890. Milton's L'allegro, Il Penseroso, Arcades, Lycidas, Sonnets Etc. London and New York: Macmillan and Co, p. 168; Smith, William...
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    greatest complaint was that obscure allusions found in works like Milton's Lycidas were overused; he preferred poetry that could be easily read and understood...
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  • —John Glenday, Noust "For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas and hath not left his peer." —John Milton, Lycidas "Queeg: 'Aboard my ship...
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    Lycabas, attended Pirithous' wedding, fought against the Lapiths and fled. Lycidas, fought against the Lapiths at Pirithous' wedding and was killed by Dryas...
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    Arcadia. Lycidas appears, saying he will live in Arcadia, and he asks to be left alone with Chloe. Strephon reluctantly withdraws, and Lycidas asks Chloe...
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    them in Latin but some like the previous ode in English. John Milton's Lycidas first appeared in such a collection. It has few Horatian echoes yet Milton's...
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    shepherds in classical pastoral elegies, including the speaker in Milton's "Lycidas". This eclogue tells the story of how two boys, Chromis and Mnasyllos,...
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    Freitas, Guilherme (2022-02-25). "Anti-Spenserian Amaranth In Milton's Lycidas". Notes and Queries. 69 (1): 28–31. doi:10.1093/notesj/gjac007. ISSN 0029-3970...
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    what was once one of the most famous poems in English literature, his "Lycidas", which drew on the traditional sea-lore that had it that the archangel...
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    shears, / And slits the thin spun life." John Milton, Lycidas, l. 75. Works related to Lycidas at Wikisource Plato (1992). Republic. Translated by Sorrey...
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    style makes it "timeless", following in the tradition of elegies like "Lycidas" and "Adonais". The poem was Whitman's most popular during his lifetime...
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    notable works as An Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity, Comus and Lycidas. Appearing in late 1645 or 1646 (see 1646 in poetry), the octavo volume...
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