“But the house of Æneas shall reign over every shore, both his children’s children, and those who shall spring from them.”—Æn. iii. 97.
“After the lapse of years, ages will come in which Ocean shall relax his chains around the world, and a vast continent shall appear, and Tiphys shall explore new regions, and Thule shall be no longer the utmost verge of earth.”—Sen. Med. ii. 375.
“The eighty-eighth will be a wondrous year.”
“He is the best asserter of the liberty of his mind, who bursts the chains that gall his breast, and at the same moment ceases to grieve.”—This quotation is from Ovid’s Remedy of Love, 293.
Lord Bacon seems to use the word in the general sense of “lending money upon interest.”
“Drive from their hives the drones, a lazy race.”—Georgics, b. iv. 168.