 | Catherine Grace F. Gore - 1841 - 976 pages
...et ayant 1'air porfaitcment vainqucur et triomphal. Cos! per entro loro schiera bruna S'ammusa l'una con 1'altra formica, Forse a spiar lor via e lor fortuna!...frequently disgusted in society, by the de haut en bas style with which people having accounts in round figures at their bankers, or coronets on their... | |
 | Michel Eyquem de Montaigne - 1877 - 662 pages
...appellations than we do with hirds, hogs, oxen, and horses ; and alter the idiom according to the kind. " Cosi per entro loro schiera bruna S'ammusa 1'una con 1'altra formica, Forse aspiar lor via et lor fortuna." 1 Lactantius2 seems to attribute to beasts not only speech, but laughter... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne - 1877 - 636 pages
...appellations than we do with birds, hogs, oxen, and horses ; and alter the idiom according to the kind. " Cosi per entro loro schiera bruna S'ammusa 1'una con 1'altra formica, Forse aspiar lor via et lor fortuna." 1 Lactantius2 seems to attribute to beasts not only speech, but laughter... | |
 | Oscar Kuhns - Nature in literature - 1897 - 224 pages
...Their muzzles put together, to inquire, Perchance, their way, or mutually tell their luck.' * 1 ' Cosl per entro loro schiera bruna S'ammusa 1'una con 1'altra formica, Forse a spiar lor via e lor fortuna.' (Purg., xxvi. 34-36.) CHAPTER IX THE HEAVENLY BODIES DURING all ages of the world's history, man has... | |
 | William Morton Wheeler - Ants - 1910 - 708 pages
...standing is shown by several passages in the ancient writers, and by Dante's simile (Purg. xxvi, 34) : " Cosi per entro loro schiera bruna S'ammusa 1'una con 1'altra formica, Forse a cspiar lor via e lor fortuna." I believe that no one who has watched ants continuously and under a... | |
 | Thomas Fletcher Royds - Animals in literature - 1918 - 138 pages
...the nest in the ground. I have observed this myself. Dante has a pretty simile from the ant : ' Cosl per entro loro schiera bruna S'ammusa 1'una con 1'altra formica, Forse a spiar lor via e lor fortuna.' Appendix B ' So through the midst of their brown swarm, ants muzzle each other (= touch their antennae)... | |
 | Patrick Boyde - Literary Collections - 1981 - 424 pages
...'muzzle' a fellow ant proceeding in the opposite direction as if it were seeking news and information: cosi per entro loro schiera bruna s'ammusa 1'una con...1'altra formica, forse a sp'iar lor via e lor fortuna. (Purg. xxvi, 34-6) Passages like these show the sharp eye of the naturalist who will record such humble... | |
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Li veggio d'ogne parte farsi presta ciascun' ombra e basciarsi una con una sanza restar, contente a brieve festa; cosi per entro loro schiera bruna s'ammusa 1'una con 1'altra formica, forse a sp'iar lor via e lor fortuna. 