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  • Fatendum est cacumine Olympi constitutus supra ventos et procellas, et omnes res humanas.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • In montis autem cacumine videntur multæ sepulturæ regum Indeæ, videlicet Dauid, Salomonis, et quorundam de successoribus suis.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Cùm vero fui in cacumine montis, inueni ibi argentum in maxima quantitate, quasi fuissent squamæ piscium.

    The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

  • In montis autem cacumine videntur mult� sepultur� regum Inde�, videlicet Dauid, Salomonis, et quorundam de successoribus suis.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • _Tro_ 1090-91 'in cacumine/erecta _summos_ [_uar_ summo] turba librauit _pedes_', and _Met_ IV 562 'aequora destringunt _summis_

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Argus et haud umquam vigilabat corpore toto. at nunc heus! aliquis longa sub nocte puellae bracchia nexa tenens ultro te, Somne, repellit: inde veni! nec te totas infundere pennas luminibus compello meis (hoc turba precetur laetior): extremo me tange cacumine virgae

    Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

  • Argus et haud umquam uigilabat corpore toto. at nunc heu! si aliquis longa sub nocte puellae bracchia nexa tenens ultro te, Somne, repellit, 15 inde ueni. nec te totas infundere pennas luminibus compello meis (hoc turba precetur laetior): extremo me tange cacumine uirgae

    To Sleep 1912

  • Itaque si praesentiam pensare uelis qua cuncta dinoscit, non esse praescientiam quasi futuri sed scientiam numquam deficientis instantiae rectius aestimabis; unde non praeuidentia sed prouidentia potius dicitur, quod porro ab rebus infimis constituta quasi ab excelso rerum cacumine cuncta prospiciat.

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • Nam nunc quidem ad communem sese hominum mensuram cohibebat, nunc uero pulsare caelum summi uerticis cacumine uidebatur; quae cum altius caput extulisset, ipsum etiam caelum penetrabat respicientiumque hominum frustrabatur intuitum.

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • [401]: Paradisus autem in Oriente, in altissimo monte, de cujus cacumine cadentes aquos, maximum faciunt lacum, que in suo casu tantum faciunt strepitum et fragorem, quod ornnes incolae, juxta praedictum lacum nascuntur surdi, ex immoderato sonitu seu fragore sensum auditus in parvulis corrumpente.

    The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus Irving, Washington, 1783-1859 1892

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