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Botticelli based his figure of Truth on the classical type of the Venus pudica, as well as his own depictions of Venus.
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
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Pudicitia was modesty, piety, devotion to home; to be pudica was to follow a carefully prescribed set of norms and values that served the greater interest of home and family.
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Pudicitia was modesty, piety, devotion to home; to be pudica was to follow a carefully prescribed set of norms and values that served the greater interest of home and family.
Archive 2007-01-28 2007
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Pudicitia was modesty, piety, devotion to home; to be pudica was to follow a carefully prescribed set of norms and values that served the greater interest of home and family.
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Hierome holds, Uxor impudica servari non potest, pudica non debet, infida custos castitatis est necessitas, to what end is all your custody?
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They call Mimosa pudica the ‘sensitive’ plant because if one touches it, the leaves close in on themselves.
The Owl and Moon Cafe Jo-Ann Mapson 2006
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Toward the end of the story, the dew breaker has a dream about being in a garden with his mother, trying to touch a mimosa pudica, or "shame plant," which has leaves that fold up when touched.
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I had discovered the mimosa pudica on a trip, and was awestruck by it — the way it opened and closed.
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I had discovered the mimosa pudica on a trip, and was awestruck by it — the way it opened and closed.
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Toward the end of the story, the dew breaker has a dream about being in a garden with his mother, trying to touch a mimosa pudica, or "shame plant," which has leaves that fold up when touched.
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