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De puellae voluntate periculum facere solis oculis non est satis, sed efficacius aliquid agere oportet, ibique etiam machinam alteram ahibere: itaque manus tange, digitos constringe, atque inter stringendum suspira; si haec agentem aequo se animo feret, neque facta hujusmodi aspernabitur, tum vero dominam appella, ejusque collum suaviare.
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_Quis te illis diebus sobrium, quis agentem aliquid, quod esset libero dignum?
A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Caius Cornelius Tacitus
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[449] He addressed to him an Ode in Latin, entitled Ad Thomam Laurence, medicum doctissimum, quum filium peregre agentem desiderio nimis tristi prosequeretur.
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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He is addressing the consul of the year from his place of exile: at cum Tarpeias esses deductus in arces, dum caderet iussu victima sacra tuo, me quoque secreto grates sibi magnus agentem audisset media qui sedet aede deus.
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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_Gaudium enim est majus in coelis super unum peccatorem poenitentiam agentem, quam supra nonaginta novem justos quibus non opus est poenitentia_.
Primitive Christian Worship Or, The Evidence of Holy Scripture and the Church, Against the Invocation of Saints and Angels, and the Blessed Virgin Mary James Endell Tyler 1820
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Junius, (102) διαταξις _sive depositio, non vere lex est, sed_ διατυπωσις aut canon, ac proindedirigit quidem ut canon agentem voluntarie: non autem necessitate cogit, ut lex etiam involuntarium quod si forte ante accedit coactio, ea non est de natura canonis sed altunde pervenit.
The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) George Gillespie 1630
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At qiia ex nobis ad imienes mefortuna id agentem die - bonos periienire pojjet vti - bus, ac noffibuSt fejli -
Prolusiones de vitiis lexicorum Novi Testamenti [microform] ; separatim antea nunc coniunctim editae multis partibus auctae multisque in locis emendatae Fischer, Johann Friedrich, 1726-1799 1791
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Rex Archelaus quinquagefimum an - num Cappadocia potiebatur, invifus Tiberio, quod eum Rhodi agentem nuUo officio colu - iflTet: nec id Archelaus per fuperbiam omiferat, fed ab intimis Augufti monitus; quia florentc G. Csefare, miflbquc ad res Orientis, intuta Ti - berii amicitia credebatur.
C. Cornelii Taciti opera omnia Cornelius Tacitus , Henry Homer , Melchior Freinsheim 1790
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Virgil expresses Orpheus's power over brutes and the wilderness — he mourns, mulcentem tigris et agentem carmine quercus, "charming the tigers and moving the oaks with song" (Georgics IV. 510) — is rendered by Wordsworth freely, "The solemn forest at the magic song
Notes on 'Captivation and Liberty in Wordsworth's Poems on Music' 2008
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Cum bellum terra marique traheretur, quamvis per arduum suis nitentibus, attamen disciplina militari et felicitate, Constantinus Licinu confusum et sine ordine agentem vicit exercitum; leviter femore sau ciatus. "]
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 Edward Gibbon 1765
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