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Quantum comes from the Latin word quantus, meaning “how much” or “how great.”
God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010
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Quantum comes from the Latin word quantus, meaning “how much” or “how great.”
God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010
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Quantum comes from the Latin word quantus, meaning “how much” or “how great.”
God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010
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Quantum comes from the Latin word quantus, meaning “how much” or “how great.”
God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010
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Nihil infelicius his, quantus iis timor, quanta dubitatio, quantus conatus, quanta solicitudo, nulla illis a molestiis vacua hora.
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Quod si tantus esse debet proximi cuiuslibet fauor, tanta æstimatio, tantus amor, quantus quæso erit in liberos?
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The transmitted reading, _tanto quantus_, can be construed: Professor E. Fantham translates 'a man so great as should have been sung with this mighty style '.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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'Adspice Plautus quo pacto partis tutetur amantis ephebi, ut patris attenti, lenonis ut insidiosi, quantus sit Dossenus edacibus in parasitis, quam non adstricto percurrat pulpita socco.
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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'Sed neque te fas est præterire, _Fairfaxi_, in quo cum summa fortitudine summam modestiam, summam vitæ sanctitatem, & natura & divinus favor conjunxit: Tu harum in partem laudum evocandus tuo jure ac merito es; quanquam in illo nunc tuo secessu, quantus olim Literni
Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various
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_Nero_ was so well learned in Musique and Poesie, as when he was taken by order of the Senate and appointed to dye, he offered violence to him selfe and sayd, _O quantus artifex pereo!
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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