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  • Ambubalarum collegia, &c. Trimalcionis topanta in Petronius recta in caelum abiit, went right to heaven: a, base quean, [2235] thou wouldst have scorned once in thy misery to have a penny from her; and why? modio nummos metiit, she measured her money by the bushel.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Note 57: London, BL Harley 957, fols. 19r — v: "et abiit mulier, et ingressa talamum, tradidit pueris poma, et accedens deosculata est tanto subdolo puerum christianum, dicens, bene venias fili." back

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • Itaque e conspectu omnium abiit Graeciae in terram ultimam.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Postquam puer morbo abiit, et ipse delphinus periit.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Interdiu oculi, et aures occupatae distrahunt animum, at noctu solus jactor, ad auroram somnus paulum misertus, nec tamen ex animo puella abiit, sed omnia mihi de Leucippe somnia erant.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Up he goes! it is but a spring of a few feet from the blanket, and he is gone — abiit, evasit, erupit!

    George Cruikshank 2006

  • And, when speaking of the departed — though there is naught in the physical appearance of the dead to justify the expression — they say, “He has gone to the gods,” the phrase being identical with “abiit ad plures”.

    Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

  • Novae nuptae tamen maritus mappam manu capit: mane autem puellae mater virginitatis signa viris mulieribusque domi ostendit eosque jubilare jubet quod calamitas domestica, sc. filia, intacta abiit.

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

  • Et dixit Jehudah ad Thamar nurum suam, Mane vidua in domo patris tui, donec crescat Selah filius meus: dicebat enim, Ne forte moriatur etiam ipse, sicut et fratres ejus, et abiit Thamar, et mansit in domo patris sui.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

  • Et surrexit Laban mane, et osculatus est filios suos ac filias suas, benedixitque eis, et abiit: et reversus est Laban ad locum suum.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

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