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“flos”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“flos”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
flos in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
flos in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
the prime of youthful vigour: flos aetatis
the perfume exhaled by flowers: odores, qui efflantur e floribus
(ambiguous) flowers of rhetoric; embellishments of style: lumina, flores dicendi (De Or. 3. 25. 96)
(ambiguous) a glorious expanse of flowers: laetissimi flores (Verr. 4. 48. 107)
