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The rare palm Itaya amicorum is found on the Upper Javari River.
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Utantur ve nationibus ludis, jocis, amicorum consortiis, quae non sinunt animum turbari, vino et cantu et loci mutatione, et biberia, et gaudio, ex quibus praecipue delectantur.
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Iis qui tristautur sine causa, et vitant amicorum societatem et tremunt corde.
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Penelopes, nebulones, Alcinoique, modo tot annos in academia insumpserint, et se pro togatis venditarint; lucri causa, et amicorum intercessu praesentantur; addo etiam et magnificis nonnunquam elogiis morum et scientiae; et jam valedicturi testimonialibus hisce litteris, amplissime conscriptis in eorum gratiam honorantur, abiis, qui fidei suae et existimationis jacturam proculdubio faciunt.
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It was first printed as one of the Dulcia amicorum solatia at the end of the funeral sermon by Georg Lilius, Berlin, 1650.
Paul Gerhardt as a Hymn Writer and his Influence on English Hymnody 1976
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_, 'Sed et famoso carmine cum ipsum tum potentissimos amicorum gravissime proscidit.'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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_, 'Revocatus Athenis a Nerone cohortique amicorum additus atque etiam quaestura honoratus, non tamen permansit in gratia.'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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_Nos tamen adhuc et utilitas amicorum, et ratio ætatis, moratur ac retinet.
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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William of Wykeham made allowances for the expense of proceeding to degrees in the University when one of his Fellows had no private means and no friends to assist him ( "propter paupertatem, inopiam, et penuriam, carentiamque amicorum"); but the sum to be thus administered was strictly limited and the recipient had to prove his poverty, and to swear to the truth of his statement.
Life in the Medieval University Robert S. Rait
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Germany and the Low Countries that the practice appears to have originated, chiefly among students and other members of the universities, of collecting autograph inscriptions and signatures of one's friends in albums, _alba amicorum_, little oblong pocket volumes of which a considerable number have survived, a very fair collection being in the British Museum.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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