In the doorway was a large table covered with candles and small figures of arms and legs in wax, which the Indians purchased as they entered at a medio apiece, for offerings to the saint.
The medio is divided into twenty parts, generally of five grains each, but the number is increased or decreased according to the quantity of the article in the market, and its real value.
In medio tutissimus ibis=--You will go safest in the middle or in a middle course.
Tantum series juncturaque / Tantum de medio sumptis accedit honoris=--Such is the power of order and arrangement: so much grace may be imparted to subjects from common life.
Medio tutissimus ibis=--You will go most safely in the middle.
Here it is: Jam Sol a medio pronus deflexerat orbe Mitius, e radiis vibrans crinalibus ignem.
The proprietor accompanied us, and at half past five we made a dashing entry into the village of Xul, with horses, and servants, and carriers, and just one solitary medio left.
For a medio he slipped off, tied his horse to a bush, and ran before us as our guide through the rancho, beyond which, turning off to the right, we soon reached a ruined edifice.
It was really perplexing to know what to do; but it was very certain that if we remained at the rancho, as soon as a medio was not forthcoming the moment it was wanted we were undone.
Medio Pollito," called the wind, "do hop up here and help me to get free of these branches.
When she took the whole family out for a walk in the fields, Medio Pollito would hop away by himself and hide among the corn.
Medio Pollito," answered the fire, "you would not help me when I was dying away in the wood.
It is your own fault for going there," answered Medio Pollito.
And he swirled Medio Pollito over the roofs of the houses till they reached the highest church in the town, and there he left him fastened to the top of the steeple.
Medio Pollito," replied the wind, "when I was caught in the branches of the chestnut tree you would not help me.
But Medio Pollito had a roving spirit in spite of his one leg, and when his mother called to him to return to the coop, he pretended that he could not hear, because he had only one ear.
Now, though Medio Pollito was such an odd, helpless-looking little thing, his mother soon found that he was not at all willing to remain under her wing and protection.
Opening the window he stretched out his arm, caught Medio Pollito, and popped him into the broth pot that was standing near the fire.
Then the fire began to burn and scald Medio Pollito, and he danced and hopped from one side of the pot to the other, trying to get away from the heat and crying out in pain: "Fire!
Medio Pollito," replied the water, "you would not help me when I was a little stream away on the fields.
The Sun in an Ecclipse, the word, Medio occidet Die.
Mezzo giorno, the Italian, instead of medio dia, a slip of the writer, the Genoese envoy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "medio" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
