Plaga

It is said that this word is derived from the Latin word plaga, and that it signifies the condemnation to the scourge of those who sold freemen for slaves. ❋ Unknown (2007)

La cagada, esta gripe no tiene preferencias, me dije enseguida … Ya han pasado quince días desde el último encuentro con la plaga y no hay síntomas. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A high brow like unto the bright heavens, coeli pulcherrima plaga, Frons ubi vivit honor, frons ubi ludit amor, white and smooth like the polished alabaster, a pair of cheeks of vermilion colour, in which love lodgeth; [4914] Amor qui mollibus genis puellae pernoctas: a coral lip, suaviorum delubrum, in which ❋ Unknown (2007)

Est ista populosa, distincta ciuitatibus, vt quisque à quacunque plaga de vna exeat ciuitate nouerit aliam in media diaeta propinquam. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Est ista populosa, distincta ciuitatibus, vt quisque � quacunque plaga de vna exeat ciuitate nouerit aliam in media diaeta propinquam. ❋ Unknown (2003)

He remembers the saying of the wise man, “Mulier nequam plaga mortis;” and at last by ordering her off in the name of the Blessed Trinity and the Holy Virgin, “withal gently blowing towards her,” she all of a sudden giving three leaps, and howling thrice, flies away in a trice. ❋ Unknown (2003)

_ Rufescente-cervina, capite aurato, antennis pedibusque rufescentibus, thorace vittis tribus latissimis (lateralibus abbreviatis) pectoreque nigricantibus, alis lutescentibus, plaga postica interiore fasciaque latissima exteriore nigricantibus. ❋ Various (N/A)

_A. _ nigra, nitida; facie, pectore, pedibus anticis et intermediis, plaga infra alas, scutelloque pallide ferrugineis. ❋ Various (N/A)

_R. _ rufescenti-flava; antennis et vertice nigris; alis hyalinis, plaga nigro-fusca. ❋ Various (N/A)

Et terribilibus oculis plaga crudeli percutientes, aceto potabant me. ❋ Various (N/A)

Vir multum iurans implebitur iniquitate et non discedet a domo eius plaga. ❋ Stephen Hawes (N/A)

The distich's fabrication was assisted by _EP_ II vii 41-42 'sic ego continue Fortunae uulneror ictu,/_uixque habet in nobis iam noua plaga locum_'. ❋ 43 BC-18? Ovid (N/A)

Bacchae bacchanti si velis advorsarier, ex insana insaniorem facies, feriet saepius; si obsequare, una resolvas plaga. ❋ Titus Maccius Plautus (1919)

Pontissara, of whom Rudborne says that he was buried _ex aquilonari plaga majoris altaris_. ❋ Philip Walsingham Sergeant (1912)

Forte, serenati qua stat plaga lactea caeli, alma Venus thalamo pulsa modo nocte iacebat amplexu duro Getici resoluta mariti. fulcra torosque deae tenerum premit agmen Amorum; signa petunt, quas ferre faces, quae pectora figi55 imperet; an terris saeuire an malit in undis, an miscere deos an adhuc uexare Tonantem. ipsi animus nondum nec cordi fixa uoluntas. fessa iacet stratis, ubi quondam conscia culpae ❋ Unknown (1912)

Fili hominis, ecce ego tollo a te desiderabile oculorum tuorom in plaga. ❋ Thomas Hardy (1884)

He remembers the saying of the wise man, "Mulier nequam plaga mortis;" and at last by ordering her off in the name of the Blessed Trinity and the Holy Virgin, ❋ Richard Francis Burton (1855)

In the missions of the Orinoco, in the villages on the banks of the river, surrounded by immense forests, the plaga de las moscas, or the plague of the mosquitos, affords an inexhaustible subject of conversation. ❋ Unknown (1851)

Upon the banks of some of the South-American rivers, life is almost unendurable on account of this pest -- the "_plaga de mosquitos_," as the Spaniards term it -- while upon other streams in the very same latitude musquitoes are unknown. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)