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Adiona's name comes from the Latin verb adeo, "to approach or visit" as well as "to take possession of one's inheritance"; perhaps the connection between these two meanings lies in the idea of "to come home again".
Archive 2008-07-01 Jan 2008
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Adiona's name comes from the Latin verb adeo, "to approach or visit" as well as "to take possession of one's inheritance"; perhaps the connection between these two meanings lies in the idea of "to come home again".
Goddess Adeona a/k/a Abeona Jan 2008
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In Hypochondriaca melancholia adeo ambigua sunt symptomata, ut etiam exercitatissimi medici de loco affecto statuere non possint.
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Multi tacit e opinantur commercium illud adeo frequens cum barbaris nudis, ac presertim cum foeminis ad libidinem provocare, at minus multo noxia illorum nuditas quam nostrarum foeminarum cultus.
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[1797] Talia de genere hoc adeo sunt multa, loquacem ut
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Hostratus cucullatus adeo graviter ob Reuclini librum, qui inscribitur, Epistolae obscurorum virorum, dolore simul et pudore sauciatus, ut seipsum interfecerit.
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“Usque adeo quod tangit idem est, tamen ultima distant!”
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[4662] Omne adeo genus in terris hominumque ferarum,
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It is in everything else as it is in colors; bad eyes can distinguish between black and white; better eyes, and eyes much exercised, can distinguish every nicer gradation: “Usque adeo quod tangit idem est, tamen ultima distant.”
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Nonnulli huic supra modum indulgent, usum etsi non adeo magnum, non tamen abjiciendum censeo.
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