Donatus "silvis coemendis"), and the flat fertile valley was certainly not abandoned to forests.
It happened that that was not the feeling, it was not a good year to make a survey, and on that account I wrote to Mr. Silvis that possibly it would be well to put off any important survey for the year 1947.
Mr. Silvis is chairman of that committee, and I will say on his behalf that he was raring to go and would have gone if it had been the feeling on the part of some of the other members that a survey was timely at that time.
It is an Italian, not perhaps without something of the Celtic fibre in his composition, who utters his natural feelings in the lines, ibi haec incondita solus Montibus etsilvis studio iactabat inani(257).
His father is said to have increased his substance among other things by keeping bees (silvis coemendis et apibus curandis),--a fact which perhaps explains the importance given to this branch of rural industry in the Georgics.
This remark reminds us of the fact that one of his father's means of livelihood was 'silvis coemendis.
Senhor de Silvis laughed much, and talked loudly of his success in life, as is the habit of rich foreigners; and as he could not reach up to the level of the Jockey Club, he gathered the best company he could find.
But De Silvis did not hear him; he sat, like the others, in breathless expectancy.
Senhor de Silvis had forgotten the name--a thing that often happened to him with his guests.
One of them will be read now by Mr. Silvis of Ohio.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "silvis" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
