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I. Verbs denoting operations of the weather; as, -- fulget fulsit _it lightens_ tonat tonuit _it thunders_ grandinat ---- _it hails_ ningit ninxit _it snows_ pluit pluit _it rains_
New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett
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This motif is commonplace and frequent; 958: Vos tranquillos video; 1130: quam valide tonuit; _As.
The Dramatic Values in Plautus Wilton Wallace Blanck�� 1916
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Id. nius 9 Cum tonuit laeuum be* XIII* $* ne quis incumbe - ne tempeftate ferena.
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[EXIT _Bromia_. ego Teresiam coniectorem advocabo et consulam quid faciundum censeat; simul hanc rem ut facta est eloquar. sed quid hoc? quam valide tonuit. di, obsecro vostram fidem.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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“And he was therewithal a most exalted Christian ” In his Ministry he was another Farel, Quo nemo tonuit fortius ” And the observance which his own People had for him, was also paid him from all sorts of People throughout the Land; but especially from the Ministers of the Country, who would still address him as a Father, a
Ralph Waldo Emerson Holmes, Oliver W 1891
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"And he was therewithal a most exalted _Christian_ -- In his Ministry he was another _Farel, Quo nemo tonuit fortius_ -- And the observance which his own People had for him, was also paid him from all sorts of People throughout the Land; but especially from the Ministers of the Country, who would still address him as a _Father_, a _Prophet_,
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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