Meaning of fur | Babel Free

Definitions

1. a thief
   declension-3
2. a rogue, rascal, blackguard
   declension-3, derogatory, especially
3. a robber-bee, a bee that steels honey from other beehives
   broadly, declension-3

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Examples

“Quod si XII tabulae nocturnum furem quoquo modo, diurnum autem, si se telo defenderet, interfici impune voluerunt, quis est qui, quoquo modo quis interfectus sit, puniendum putet, cum videat aliquando gladium nobis ad hominem occidendum ab ipsis porrigi legibus?”

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“[Pythodicus] […] sed uter vestrorum est celerior? memora mihi. [Anthrax] Ego, et multo melior. [Pythodicus] Cocum ego, non furem rogo. [Anthrax] Cocum ergo dico. [Pythodicus] Quid tu ais? [Congrio] Sic sum ut vides. [Anthrax] Cocus ille nundinalest, in nonum diem solet ire coctum. [Congrio] Tun, trium litterarum homo, me vituperas? fur. [Anthrax] Etiam fur, trifurcifer.”

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“Invitent croceis [apes] halantes floribus horti Et custos furum atque avium cum falce saligna”

May gardens bright, fragrant with flower, lure them [the bees] and Hellespontian Priap with his willow scythe the robbing bee and the birds keep away.

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