Lexicographical Neighbors of Splenia
Literary usage of Splenia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. M. Val. Martialis Epigrammata selecta =: Select epigrams from Martial by Martial, Frederick Apthorp Paley, W. H. Stone (1885)
"splenia] Ep. 410. 22. Small patches or plasters, like gold-beaters' skin (so
called from their supposed resemblance to the shape of tl'e spleen\ worn to ..."
2. An Essay on the Earlier Part of the Life of Swift by John Barrett, Jonathan Swift (1808)
"splenia tolle, leges. But to return; she left her courageous heart to pretty Mr.
Weaver. Her beauty (now you all expect I'll say,—to Sir Bayly and ..."
3. The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Additional Letters, Tracts, and by Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott (1814)
"... Ignores, qua; sit < splenia tolle, leges. But to return; she left her courageous
heart to pretty Mr Weaver. Her beauty (now you all expect I'll say—to ..."
4. A manual of Roman antiquities by Thomas Swinburne Carr (1836)
"So Martial, in reference to some person of servile origin who had risen to
opulence, and whose forehead was marked with numerous patches (splenia) ..."
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