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Poena stupet, quod in poena/Sit Iohannes sine poena/Bullientis olei.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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That's a translation of subpoena: Sub Poena: Under Punishment.
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Poena means Penalty, as in "There's an opening at the penal colony."
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Poena means Penalty, as in "There\'s an opening at the penal colony."
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But in spite of these joyful tidings it must, alas! be remembered that Poena, that just but Rhadamanthine goddess, whom moderns ordinarily call Punishment, or Nemesis when we wish to speak of her goddess-ship, very seldom fails to catch a wicked man though she have sometimes a lame foot of her own, and though the wicked man may possibly get a start of her.
Framley Parsonage 2004
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'Raro antecedentem scelestum deseruit pede Poena claudo.' iii. 3 touches intimately the political questions of the day.
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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_Poena conventionalis_, 185. difference from interest, 186.
An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching George O'Brien
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* Poena linguarum dispersit homines, donum linguarum in unum collegit.
Scripture and Truth: Dissertations by the Late Benjamin Jowett with Introduction by Lewis Campbell. 1817-1893 1907
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[` Poena linguarum dispersit homines, donum linguarum in unum collegit. ']
Scripture and Truth: Dissertations by the Late Benjamin Jowett with Introduction by Lewis Campbell. 1817-1893 1907
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