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Diurna   Listen
noun
Diurna  n. pl.  (Zool.) A division of Lepidoptera, including the butterflies; so called because they fly only in the daytime.





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... and most earnestly of all Horace in Arte Poetica, which he doth namely propter carmen Iambicum, and referreth all good studentes herein to the Imitation of the Greeke tong, saying. Exemplaria Grca nocturna versate manu, versate diurna. ...
— The Schoolmaster • Roger Ascham


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