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Scaevola

[ see-vuh-luh, sev-uh- ]

noun

  1. Ҳ·ܲ [gey, -, uh, s] (or 䲹·ܲ ) [key, -, uh, s] ѳ··ܲ [myoo, -shee-, uh, s, -sh, uh, s], fl. 6th century b.c., Roman hero.


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Fairy fan flower, Scaevola albida ‘Mauve Clusters’

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Many plants, which she never considered, were a welcome surprise: ‘Mystic Spires Blue’ salvia, purple fairy fan flower, Scaevola albida ‘Mauve Clusters’ and the native shrub toyon, or California holly.

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Manius Acilius Glabrio, Roman statesman and general, grandson of the famous jurist P. Mucius Scaevola.

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An appeal to the consul P. Mucius Scaevola to order him to be put to death at once having failed, P. Scipio Nasica exclaimed that Scaevola was acting treacherously towards the state, and called upon those who agreed with him to take up arms and follow him.

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Even the moderate Scaevola subsequently maintained that Nasica was justified in his action; and it was reported that Scipio, when he heard at Numantia of his brother-in-law’s death, repeated the line of Homer—“So perish all who do the like again.”

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