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Pr鎠tantissimis illic institutoribus vsus, ex summa circa ingenuas artes industria, et assiduo literarum labore, famam sibi inter suos celeberrimam comparauit.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Ovid more commonly uses _renouare_, as at _Tr_ V xii 23-24 'fertilis, assiduo si non renouetur aratro,/nil nisi cum spinis gramen habebit ager', _Am_ I iii 9, _Met_ I 110 & XV 125, _Fast_ I 159, and _Tr_ IV vi 13.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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= See at viii 49 _tabida consumit ferrum lapidemque uetustas_ (p 270), and compare _AA_ I 473-76 'ferreus assiduo consumitur _anulus_ usu,/interit assidua _uomer_ aduncus humo./quid magis est saxo durum, quid mollius unda?
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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For _perpetuum_ compare _Tr_ III ii 7-8 'plurima sed pelago terraque pericula passum/ustus ab _assiduo_ frigore Pontus habet', _Tr_ III x 14 '[niuem ...] indurat Boreas _perpetuamque_ facit',
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Ne perpauxillum modo, nam istoc me assiduo victu delecto domi, age sis, roga emptum. nisi qui meliorem adferet quae mi atque amicis placeat condicio magis, 180 quasi fundum vendam, meis me addicam legibus
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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Suetonius, in the life of Claudius, speaks of this decree in the ninth year of his reign, and says, The reason was because the Jews were a turbulent people -- assiduo tumultuantes; and that it was impulsore Christo -- upon the account of
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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Illic excitatis primùm aquis, quas sine tumultu leni alveo duxerat, violentus et toriens per malignos transitus prosilit, dissimilis sibi — tandemque eluctatus obstantia, in vastam altitudinem subito destitutus cadit, cum ingenti circumjacentium regionum strepitu; quem perferre gens ibi à Persis collocata non potuit, obtusis assiduo fragore auribus, et ob hoc sedibus ad quietiora translatis.
The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) Charles Rollin 1701
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Præstantissimis illic institutoribus vsus, ex summa circa ingenuas artes industria, et assiduo literarum labore, famam sibi inter suos celeberrimam comparauit.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584
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- for the _assiduo ruptæ lectore columnæ_ is as old as earthquake in Italy.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. Various
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... nec magis assiduo _uomer_ tenuatur ab usu,/nec magis est curuis
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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