If [he said] the expectation raised by the splints of horses that, in some ancestor of the horses, these splints would be found to be complete digits, has been verified, we are furnished with very strong reasons for looking for a no less complete verification of the expectation that the three-toed Plagiolophus-like "avus" of the horse must have been a five-toed "atavus" at some early period. ❋ Thomas Henry Huxley (1860)
Professor Huxley, speaking in 1870, said, "If the expectation raised by the splints of the horses that, in some ancestor of the horses, these splints would be found to be complete digits, has been verified, we are furnished with very strong reasons for looking for a no less complete verification that the three-toed _plagiolophus_-like 'avus' of the horse must have had a five-toed 'atavus' at some earlier period. ❋ George John Romanes (1871)
Quaestor avus pater atque meus, patruusque fuissent. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Your avus Caesar was against marriage between any of you. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1991)
Verum ego iis finibus ejectus sum, quos majoribus meis populus Romanus dedit, unde pater et avus meus una vobiscum expulere Syphacem et Carthaginienses. ❋ 86 BC-34? BC Sallust (N/A)
Perseus fílius erat Iovis, máximí deórum; avus éius Acrisius appellábátur. ❋ John [Editor] Kirtland (N/A)
Credo sic mater, sic Liber avunculus ejus, Sic maternus avus dixerat, atque avia. ❋ Frances Ellen Lord (N/A)
The Claude Lorraine glass is a rara avus, and not only gives new lights to the scenery, but brings out the human nature on board in great force. ❋ Gail Hamilton (1864)
It is scarcely possible for two words to bear fewer outward marks of relationship, yet there is but one step between them, _avus_, _avunculus_, _uncle_. ❋ John Stuart Mill (1839)
Another etymological example sometimes cited is the derivation of the English _uncle_ from the Latin _avus_. ❋ John Stuart Mill (1839)
Quae noster peccavit avus, quem fuscat id unum, Quod te, Roma, capit. ❋ Edward Gibbon (1765)
Has anyone else noticed that on the Ferrari 599 configurator when you apply Bianco avus the Ferrari badges on the side disappear. ❋ Unknown (2009)
And in fact, the researchers may have a candidate: a species from Patagonia called Dusicyon avus, which went extinct 6,000 to 8,000 years ago. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Sed malus ille puer, quem nec fua fledere mater Iratum potuit, quem nec pater, atque avus idcm Jupiter: ille etiam Pcenos domitare leones, ❋ Virgil, Publius Vergilius Maro (1796)
W paCcr foerit Mededonis, avus Menippus, btam iroaros, VdhuftnM tbatus, Titus aia - ❋ Horace, Ludovicus Desprez, André Dacier (1793)
SUOua L. Caesaris avus mnternus, Germanicus et Agrippi -. togaia basi im/posita, na parentes. ❋ Emerich Thomas Hohler , Joseph Eckhel, Anton Von Steinbüchel, Aubin Louis Millin De Grandmaison (1792)
Agronis fvater; ntpotis ex fratrej Pinna vel Pinei,/uc - cejfor in regno; pater Pietl•• rathi; avus Genihii. ❋ Unknown (1789)
Btom. dedit: un - de patci, & avus mcus una vobifcum expulere Sy - phacem, & Canhaginienfes. ❋ Veratius, Jobus, D. 1571 (1672)
MADOC VICHAN, Dñs LEONLINUS, GRIFFITH VAWER 4 filius, | de Bromfeld, cujus Dñs de GWYNN, Dñs de Dñs de | custôdiam in minori Chirke Yale avus Owyn Kynllieth. ❋ Various (1852)
From T.avus T. Hipp's Morning News & Commentary for April 07 2009: ❋ Unknown (2009)
He's Avu ❋ Melinigga (2023)
