The great number of windows in the ends of the houses, and their irregularity in size and position, here and elsewhere on the Cape, struck us agreeably, -- as if each of the various occupants who had their _cunabula_ behind had punched a hole where his necessities required it, and according to his size and stature, without regard to outside effect. ❋ Various (N/A)
The so-called Incunabula (Lat. cunabula, pl., "cradle") 2. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
About 200 B.C. two brothers, Publius and Sextus Aelius, both citizens of consular and censorial rank, published a systematic treatise called _Tripertita_, which was long afterwards held in reverence as containing the _cunabula iuris_, the cradle out of which the vast systems of later ages sprang. ❋ Unknown (1902)
The great number of windows in the ends of the houses, and their irregularity in size and position, here and elsewhere on the Cape, struck us agreeably, -- as if each of the various occupants who had their cunabula behind had punched a hole where his necessities required it, and, according to his size and stature, without regard to outside effect. ❋ Unknown (1865)
Nostra Paula, [129] quae ex urbano palatio et opimis praediis in speluncam Bethleemiticam tantis itineribus peregrina cucurrit, ut ad Christi vagientis cunabula delitesceret. ❋ Edmund Campion (1560)
Ipfae confident medicatis fedibus; iplae Intima more fuo fefe in cunabula condent. ❋ Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield (1796)
Creta Jovis magni medio jaoet infula pontoj Mon/Idseus ubi, et gentis cunabula noffa». ❋ Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield (1796)
_incunabula_, or cradle-books (from Latin _cunabula_, a cradle) a term applied to all works produced in the infancy of printing, and most commonly to those appearing before 1500. ❋ Ainsworth Rand Spofford (N/A)
Castaliusque mihi noua pocula fontis alumnus5 ingerit et late campos metatus apertos imponitque iugum uati retinetque corymbis implicitum ducitque per auia, qua sola numquam trita rotis. iuuat aurato procedere curru et parere deo: uiridis en ire per herbas10 imperat: intacto premimus uestigia musco; et, quamuis cursus ostendat tramite noto obuia Calliope facilis, insistere prato complacitum, rudibus qua luceat orbita sulcis. nam quis non Nioben numeroso funere maestam15 iam cecinit? quis non Semelen ignemque iugalem letalemque simul nouit de paelicis astu? quis magno recreata tacet cunabula Baccho, ut pater omnipotens maternos reddere mensis dignatus iusti complerit tempora partus? ❋ Unknown (1912)
Titanasque senes louis et cunabula magni15 et sub fratre uiri nomen sine matre parentis atque iterum patrio nascentem corpore Bacchum omniaque inmenso uolitantia lumina mundo. quin etiam ruris cultus legesque notauit militiamque soli; quod collis Bacchus amaret, 20 quod fecunda Ceres campos, quod Pallas utrumque, atque arbusta uagis essent quod adultera pomis, silurumque deos sacrataque flumina nymphis, pacis opus magnos naturae condit in usus. astrorum quidam uarias dixere figuras25 signaque diffuso passim labentia caelo in proprium cuiusque genus causasque tulere: ❋ Unknown (1912)
It is curious to observe with what different degrees of architectonic skill Providence has endowed birds of the same genus, and so nearly correspondent in their general mode of life; for while the swallow and the house-martin discover the greatest address in raising and securely fixing crusts or shells of loam as cunabula for their young, the bank - martin terebrates a round and regular hole in the sand or earth, which is serpentine, horizontal, and about two feet deep. ❋ Gilbert White (1756)
Theodoric against the Empire.] [Footnote 515: 'Tales mittunt nostra cunabula bellatores: sic paratae sunt manus, ubi exercetur animus.'] 'Returned to the Court he became the most intimate counsellor of the ❋ Senator Cassiodorus (1872)
Hta melifphylla, et ccrinthae ignobilc gramcn; umitusquc cie, ct Matris quatc cymbala circum: iae confident mcdicatis fedibus} ipfae itima morc fuo fefc ih cunabula condcnt. ❋ Virgil, Publius Vergilius Maro (1796)
