In chapter 12 of 'A Pair of Blue Eyes, the novel by Thomas Hardy, the author
says of Mrs Swancourt She had held out to Elfride hands whose fingers were
literally stiff with rings, signis auroque rigentes, like Helen's robe
The Latin is from The Aeneid and, I think, should read signis auroque
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In chapter 12 of 'A Pair of Blue Eyes, the novel by Thomas Hardy, the author
says of Mrs Swancourt She had held out to Elfride hands whose fingers were
literally stiff with rings, signis auroque rigentes, like Helen's robe
The
