"Nemorous" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... says Evelyn, was but a kind of 'nemorous temple or sacred grove,' planted by God himself, and given to man tanquam primo sacerdoti; and he goes on to suggest that the groves which the patriarchs are recorded to have planted in different parts of Palestine may have been memorials of that ...
— The Folk-lore of Plants • T. F. Thiselton-Dyer |
