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Oct 3, 2004 · The Latin phrase that appears on the Hat Creek Cattle Company sign in “Lonesome Dove” is a garbled corruption, and there’s no direct translation. It derives from the scholia to Juvenal 2.81 which cites the proverb “uva uvam videndo varia fit” This means something like “a grape changes color [i.e., ripens] when it sees [another] grape”
Mar 8, 2018 · In Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Lonesome Dove, Augustus McCray added the phrase “Uva uvam vivendo varia fit” (91) to the Hat Creek Cattle Company sign because he believed that it ...
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Jul 28, 2021 · Here’s the Latin: Uva Uvam Vivendo Varia Fit. Here’s the English, according to Lonesome Dove author Larry McMurtry: “I found it in Gurney Benham’s Putnam’s Complete Book of Quotations....
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The smartest man alive can’t learn much about a woman in two weeks. Talk’s the way to kill it. Anything gets boring if you talk about it enough, even death. 2. I'm sure partial to the evening,' Augustus said. 'The evening and the morning. If we just didn't have to have the rest of the dern day I'd be a lot happier.
18 of the best book quotes from Augustus McCrae. “I take it back, Woodrow,” Augustus said. “I have no doubt you’ll miss me. You’ll probably die of boredom this winter and I’ll never get to Clara’s orchard. “I figured out why you and me get along so well. You know more than you say and I say more than I know. That means we’re a ...
