“Give lilies with full hands.”
Manibus date lilia plenis.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Line 883
“The sprinkled isles,
Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea.”
Cleon.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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