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  • Vinca from Latin vincire "to bind, fetter" is a genus of five species of in the family Apocynaceae, native to Europe, northwest Africa and southwest Asia.

    VINCA MINOR ALBA FOR ELEGANCE Pooky 2009

  • The common example of this, is that noted passage in Cicero which every schoolboy knows: "Facinus est vincire civem Romanum; scelus verberare, prope parricidium, necare; quid dicam in crucem tollere."

    languagehat.com: AS EVERY SCHOOLBOY KNOWS. 2005

  • Me iuvat et multo mentem vincire Lyaeo et caput in verna semper habere rosa, contrasted with the numerous passages where he is thinking of the grave, _e. g._ ii.

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • Here you find in private life, as well as in public, the vincire et verberare nefas.

    Roman and the Teuton Charles Kingsley 1847

  • "Ceterum neque animadvertere, neque vincire, neque verberare quidem, nisi sacerdotibus permissum; non quasi in pœnam, nec ducis jussu, sed velut Deo imperante," says Tacitus, de Mor.

    The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763

  • -- M.] [Footnote 40: Et dedignatus hominem superare certamine despicabilem, auctoritatis et celsi fiducia corporis ipsis hostibus jussit, suum vincire rectorem: atque ita turmarum, antesignanus umbratilis comprensus suorum manibus.

    History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 Edward Gibbon 1765

  • M.] 40 Et dedignatus hominem superare certamine despicabilem, auctoritatis et celsi fiducia corporis ipsis hostibus jussit, suum vincire rectorem: atque ita turmarum, antesignanus umbratilis comprensus suorum manibus.

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

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