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  • Fidei Catolicæ expertes existant, uti muta animalia ad nostra obsequia redigendos esse passim asserere præsumat.

    Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings Francis Augustus MacNutt

  • In the next year he was granted the right to hunt in the parks and forests of the king, with this prologue: "Redeuntes ad memoriam obsequia et servicia placida que dilectus armiger noster Johannes de Beverlee nobis non absque periculis et rerum despendiis a longo tempore impendit" etc.

    Chaucer's Official Life James Root Hulbert 1926

  • Sic enim habet lex secunda imperatoris Constantii: ` Ab honoribus mercandis per suffragia, vel qualibet ambitione quaerendis, certa multa prohibuit: cui addimus et quicunque, fugientes obsequia curiarum, umbras et nomina affectaverint dignitatem, tricenas libras argenti inferre cogantur, manente illa praeterita inlatione auri qua perpetua lege constructi sunt. '

    NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

  • In the next year he was granted the right to hunt in the parks and forests of the king, with this prologue: “Redeuntes ad memoriam obsequia et servicia placida que dilectus armiger noster Johannes de Beverlee nobis non absque periculis et rerum despendiis a longo tempore impendit” etc. [

    Chaucer's Official Life Hulbert, James Root, 1884- 1912

  • (Dahn also makes this correction.)] [Footnote 665: 'Et vestra decet obsequia retinere.'

    The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator Senator Cassiodorus 1872

  • [48] [Footnote 41: Par exstans curis, solo diademate dispar, Ordine pro rerum vocitatus Cura-Palati, says the African Corippus, (de Laudibus Justini, l.i. 136,) and in the same century (the vith) Cassiodorus represents him, who, virga aurea decoratus, inter numerosa obsequia primus ante pedes regis incederet (Variar. vii.

    History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765

  • Ordine pro rerum vocitatus Cura-Palati, says the African Corippus, (de Laudibus Justini, l.i. 136,) and in the same century (the vith) Cassiodorus represents him, who, virga aurea decoratus, inter numerosa obsequia primus ante pedes regis incederet (Variar. vii.

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

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