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^ puwdffiv A3, in lit. M. 



" The formido of Latin writers, a line hung with feathers 

 and ribbons of various colours by which the game is scared 

 and driven in the desired direction. Verg. A. xii. 749 

 Inclusum veluti si quando flumine nactus Cervura aut 

 puniceae saeptum formidine pennae Venator cursu canis 

 et latratibus instat ; G. iii. 371 Hos (cervos) non inmissis 

 canibus, non cassibus ullis Puniceaeve agitant pavidos 

 formidine pennae ; Senec. Hipp. 46 Picta rubenti linea 

 penna Vano claudat terrore feras ; De ira ii. 11. 5 cum 

 maximos ferarum greges linea pennis distincta contineat et 

 in insidias agat, ab ipso adfectu dicta formido ; De clem. i. 

 12. 5 Sic feras lineae et pennae clausas continent. Easdera 

 a tergo eques telis incessat : temptabunt fugam per ipsa 

 quae fugerant procalcabuntque formidinem ; Luc. iv. 437 

 Sic dum pavidos formidine cei'vos Claudat odoratae me- 

 tuentes aera pennae. 



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