"As by the way of innuendo Lucus is made a non lucendo."
— Trees

January 1, 1970

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Charles Churchill, The Ghost (1763), Book II. V. 257. "Lucus a non lucendo.—Lucus (a grove), from non lucendo (not admitting light)." A derivation given by Quintilian I. 16, and by others.