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Definition of Breves
1. breve [n] - See also: breve
Lexicographical Neighbors of Breves
Literary usage of Breves
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Classical Philology by University of Chicago press, JSTOR (Organization) (1917)
"Of the 2 cases of /card in breves (both in set phrases) one has the breves wholly
in the preposition and its object. The 2 cases of nerb in breves are with ..."
2. History of England from the Accession of James I. to the Outbreak of the by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1905)
"4 Garnet's examinations in Jardine's Gunpowder Plot, App. p. iii., throw back
the date of the breves. Their language does not suit with an intention to ..."
3. Criminal Trials by David Jardine (1835)
"Garnet's statements respecting these breves are contained in Examinations of the
13th, 14th, and 26th of March, 1605-6, the originals of which are extant at ..."
4. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 93 by Harvard University (1898)
"One of the characteristic features of Plautine verse is the shortening of a long
syllable by what is known as the " breves brevi- antes " law. ..."
5. The Latin Language: An Historical Account of Latin Sounds, Stems and Flexions by Wallace Martin Lindsay (1894)
"... &c. ; commoda Catull. x. 26 is probably Neut. Plur. (see Owen ad loc.).
(On the operation of the breves ..."
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