My spouse, usually referring to
one’s
wife. The
term dates from
the sixteenth
century
and originally signified
a
close friend
or lover. Indeed, much earlier the Roman poet Horace called his friend animae dimidium meae, describing an intimacy in which two friends are considered the halves of one whole. The Elizabethans used it for a wife (Sir Philip Sid- ney
in Arcadia, 1590) or lover (Shakespeare, Sonnet 39, c. 1600). It contin-
ued to be used seriously through the eighteenth century and then began to be used more in a jocular or ironic way, as it is today.
The Fexco 2024 concludes by breaking records in visits and economic
activity.
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The International Fair and Exhibition of Cochabamba (Fexco) concluded
yesterday after 11 days of constant and intense activity. Preliminary
figures indi...
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