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The chapter acts of the cathedral for 12 March 1544 mention ‘Jacobus Clement Pbro’ presbyter, and on 26 March Clemens was nominated succentor ‘per modum probae’; the fact that he had to pass a proficiency examination indicates that he was hardly known.
Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009
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Haec mulier genere atque forma, praeterea viro, liberis satis fortunata fuit; litteris Graecis et Latinis docta, psallere, saltare elegantius, quam necesse est probae, multa alia, quae instrumenta luxuriae sunt.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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She perfectly answered the description of Sallust's Sempronia, who was said - "Saltare elegantius, quam necesse est probae, et cui cariora semper omnia, quam decus et pudicitia fuit."
Journal of a Residence among the Negroes in the West Indies Matthew Gregory 1845
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Accedit ad eleTandam numi Ya - ticanlfidem etiam ilhid, Zoegae, qood Tideo, 'noo obserTatum, quod argenteus est, cam tamen Alexandrinus probae fi - dei argenteus per totum Angusti impe* riam notidom sese obtolerit*
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FONTIBVS.etc. jam ab Occone oblru - sus, subinde a variis probae notae anti - quariis restitutus est.
chained_bear commented on the word probae
"In addition to nefs, grand tables might be adorned with small fountains or probae used to detect poison. Gems, coral, or certain kinds of animal teeth or horns were supposed to change color or otherwise warn of poison, and they were formed into goblets or fancifully ornamented sculptures."
Paul Freedman, Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination (New Haven and London: Yale UP, 2008), 32.
November 27, 2017