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Voluntati sacrarum intendo scripturarum, vos dissonantiam facitis, verendumque est né aratrum sancta ecclesia, quod in Anglia duo boves validi et pari fortitudine, ad bonum certantes, id est, rex et archepiscopus, debeant trahere nunc ove verula cum tauro indomito jugata, distorqueatur a recto.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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It is differently told in one of the old Latin jest books, where a certain Piero, pitying his weary jackass, which bore a heavy plough, took the latter on his own shoulders, and mounting the donkey, said: '_Nune procedere poteris, non enim tu sed ego aratrum fero_,' -- 'Now you may go along, for not you but I now bear the plough.'
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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Sarmaticumque premat succinctus consul aratrum, quod semper saevas debet tibi Parthia poenas, quod fugiens civile nefas redituraque numquam libertas ultra Tigrim Rhenumque recessit ac totiens nobis iugulo quaesita vagatur,
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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Voluntati sacrarum intendo scripturarum, vos dissonantiam facitis, verendúmque est nè aratrum sanctæ ecclesiæ, quod in Anglia duo boves validi et pari fortitudine, ad bonum certantes, id est, rex et archiepiscopus, debeant trahere, nunc ove vetula cum tauro indomito jugata, distorqueatur à recto.
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Ego ovis vetula, qui si quietus essem, verbi Dei lacte, et operimento lanæ, aliquibus possèm fortassis non ingratus esse, sed si me cum hoc tauro coniungitis, videbitis pro disparilitate trahentium, aratrum non rectè procedere, etc.
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L Sat. r, a8. durum aratrum, A gravjtane voti bidemess siv« rastri.
P. Ovidii Nasonis Fastorum libri VI. Ovid, Publius Ovidius Naso, Gottlieb Erdmann Gierig 1812
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Spica, fu - per culmo aratrum, infra max. iR a. Eckbel.
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Meflanae. — et nux pinea, vel ftrobihili n: Syracufac. — palma et aratrum. n.
Lexicon vniversae rei nvmariae vetervm et praecipve Graecorvm ac Romanorvm: cvm observationibvs ... Johann Christoph Rasche 1785
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(_aratrum_) or ploughland (from _sulh_, "plough"), the fourth part of which was the _geocled_ or _geoc_ (_jugum_), originally a yoke of oxen.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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Ego ovis verula, qui si quietus essem, verbi Dei lacte, et operinento lanæ, aliquibus possèm fortassis non ingratus esse, sed si me cum hoc tauro coniungitis, videbitis pro disparilitate trahentium, aratrum non rectè procedere, "_ etc.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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