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Group 47: Latin

629. Momo mordacior.

630. Crasso nummatior.

631. Iro pauperior.

632. Atreo crudelior.

633. Proteo mutabilior.

634. Cicada vocalior.

635. Vespa acerbior.

636. Talpa caecior.

637. Spongia bibacior.

638. Arenis sitientior.

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629. More sharp-tongued than Momus. (Momus was a mythological complainer, as you can see in this fable about Momus and the gods' inventions.)

630. With more money than Crassus. (Crassus was a Roman general and politician, renowned for his wealth.)

631. More poor than Irus. (Irus was a beggar employed by the suitors of Penelope in Homer's Odyssey.)

632. More savage than Atreus. (Atreus, the father of Agamemnon and Menelaus, is most notorious for cooking up the sons of Thyestes, his own brothers, and serving their cooked bodies to him at a banquet.)

633. More changing than Proteus. (The mythological Proteus was capable of changing his shape.)

634. More voluble than a cricket. (You can read a brief essay about this proverb at the AudioLatinProverbs.com blog.)

635. More stinging than a wasp. (You can read the complaint of the butterfly against the stinging wasp in this Aesop's fable.) Vespa acerbior.

636. More blind than a mole. (The proverbial blindness of the mole is one of the errors refuted by Thomas Browne in his Pseudodoxia Epidemica. You can read a brief essay about this proverb at the AudioLatinProverbs.com blog.)

637. More absorbent than a sponge. (Erasmus includes this comparison in the introduction to his Adagia, under the heading De Figuris proverbialibus, "About Proverbial Figures of Speech.")

638. More thirsty than the sands. (Erasmus includes this comparison in the introduction to his Adagia, under the heading De Figuris proverbialibus, "About Proverbial Figures of Speech.")