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canities

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canities - The medical term for the graying or whitening of hair.
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He himself drives the boat by the pole, ministers the sails and his rust-colored boat carries the bodies, now aged, yet a god's old age is hardy and green: portitor has horrendus aquas et flumina servat / terribili squalore Charon, cui plurima mento / canities inculta iacet, stant lumina flamma, / sordidus ex umeris nodo dependet amictus.
Images of liminality in Book VI of The Aeneid by Saeedi, Pouneh / CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
At 892 B, Montaigne cites these three verses of Juvenal 3 (lines 26-28): "Dum nova canities, dum prima et recta senectus, I dum superest Lachesi quad torqueat et pedibus me / porto meis, nullo dextram subeunte bacillo.
Intertextual Labyrinths: Ariadne's Lament in Montaigne's "Sur des ... by WIESMANN, MARC-ANDRE / Renaissance Quarterly
In the laboratory, Wood and his colleagues have also tested the polyhedrindeleted virus loaded with a toxin gene from the Diguetia canities spider.
Mothra meets its match; researchers engineer insect-killing viruses by Adler, Tina / Science News
 
 
 
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