He had already penetrated far into the interior, and was at Naraggara (to the west of Sicca, now El Kef, on the frontier between Tunis and Algiers), when Hannibal, who had marched out from Hadrumetum, fell in with him.

[4001] "Ad generum Cereris sine caede et sanguine pauci Descendunt reges et sicca morte tyranni.

"Da verbenam in potu et non erigetur virga sex diebus; utere mentha sicca cum aceto, genitalia illinita succo hyoscyami aid cicutae, coitus appelitum sedant, &c. [Symbol: Rx].

Ulcerata crura, sitis ipsis adest immodica, pallidi, lingua sicca.

Ergo efficiens causa melancholiae est calida et sicca intemperies, non frigida et sicca, quod multi opinati sunt, oritur enim a calore celebri assante sanguinem, &c. tum quod aromata sanguinem incendunt, solitudo, vigiliae, febris praecedens, meditatio, studium, et haec omnia calefaciunt, ergo ratum sit, &c. 2432.

Ergo efficiens causa melancholiae est calida et sicca intemperies, non frigida et sicca, quod multi opinati sunt, oritur enim a calore celebri assante sanguinem, &c. tum quod aromata sanguinem incendunt, solitudo, vigiliae, febris praecedens, meditatio, studium, et haec omnia calefaciunt, ergo ratum sit, &c. 2432.

Ad generum Cereris sine caede et sanguine pauci descendunt reges, et sicca morte tyranni.

A few silver ornaments and a small bag of sicca rupees were all that I had so far obtained, and I naturally felt desirous of increasing my store, more especially when it was well known that many officers, more fortunate and less scrupulous, had already made themselves masters of large quantities of valuable plunder.

On several occasions we succeeded in finding large stores of money, chiefly sicca or native rupees, while in the houses of Hindoos, in portions of the walls which sounded hollow under the blow of the hammer, we, after making a hole sufficiently large for the passage of a hand, constantly brought to light large stores of silver ornaments, consisting of chains, bracelets, etc., amounting in the aggregate to a barrowful.

If a man may not take advantage of sicca chance as that he needs no better chance again than a rope around his neck with a stone tied to it and a drop into the Firth o' Forth!

It was just sicca they my agent and the managers and a' had thocht would stand between me and winning a success in London.

Wull, thanks to his "meanness," was always able to find the siller for sicca loan.

They'll ca' him a woman hater, when the puir laddie's nae sicca thing.

Sicca one can ne'er meet the real call when it comes; he's bankrupt in the emergency.

And ye ken, and I ken, that 'tis in the cities that ye'll see man and wife wi' e'er a bairn to bless many and many sicca couple, childless, lonely.

My friend Graham Moffatt wrote a play I was in, once, that was no sicca poor success"A Scrape o' the Pen" it was called.

It wasna till after I'd been in America that I made sae many records, but I'd made enough at lime for some of my songs tae become popular, and so it wasna quite sicca novelty as I'd thought it micht be for them to hear me.

" Can you no see sicca man?

Show me sicca man and I'll show you one who ends by having no friends at allone who gets all sides down upon him, because he was so afraid of making enemies that he did nothing to make himself freinds.

Six mashas amount to nearly a quarter of an ounce; a sicca rupee weighs eleven mashas.