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  • Discendentem visu prosequitur, absentem desiderat, redeuntem laeta excipit. — 7.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • “Aen.” iv. 83, “illum absens absentem auditque videtque.”

    Symposium 2007

  • "Si quis amiecum absentem rodere delectat ad hanc mensam accumbere indignus est."

    Notes and Queries, Number 06, December 8, 1849 Various

  • Ceu canis umbrosam lustrans Gortynia uallem, si celeris potuit ceruae comprendere lustra, saeuit in absentem et circum uestigia latrans5 aethera per nitidum tenues sectatur odores: non amnes illam medii, non ardua tardant, perdita nec serae meminit decedere nocti.

    Fragments of the De Morte 1912

  • We believe, teach, and confess that the words of the Testament of Christ are not to be otherwise received than as the words themselves literally sound, so that the bread does not signify the absent absentem Christi sanguinem significent, sed ut propter sacramentalem unionem, panis et vinum vere sint corpus et sanguis Christi. body of

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • His answer was, "Frustra absentem requiris, quem præsentem neglexistis."

    In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc 1879

  • * Quisquis amat dictis absentem rode e amicum, Hanc mensam vetitam noverit esse sibi.

    The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God. d. 1631 1842

  • [50] St. Austin had written over his table -- Quisquis amat dictis absentem rode e amicum, Hanc mensam vetitam noverit esse sibi.

    The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God. d. 1631 1842

  • (qui causam facias cur ita, saepe dabit), 40 inde domum repetes toto comitante senatu, officium populi uix capiente domo. me miserum, turba quod non ego cernar in illa nec poterunt istis lumina nostra frui! quamlibet absentem, qua possum, mente uidebo: 45 aspiciet uultus consulis illa sui. di faciant aliquo subeat tibi tempore nostrum nomen, et 'heu' dicas 'quid miser ille facit?' haec tua pertulerit si quis mihi uerba, fatebor protinus exilium mollius esse meum.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • * absentem Christi sanguinem significent, sed ut propter sacramentalem unionem, panis et vinum vere sint corpus et sanguis

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

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