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  • Exaltata est sancta Dei Genitrix super chorus Angelorum ad caelestia regna.

    August 15: Feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Part II bls 2008

  • Exaltata est sancta Dei Genitrix super chorus Angelorum ad caelestia regna.

    Archive 2008-08-01 bls 2008

  • [5902] Sidera corporibus praesunt caelestia nostris,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • For he that shall attentively observe how the mind doth gather this excellent dew of knowledge, like unto that which the poet speaketh of, Aerei mellis caelestia dona, distilling and contriving it out of particulars natural and artificial, as the flowers of the field and garden, shall find that the mind of herself by nature doth manage and act an induction much better than they describe it.

    The Advancement of Learning 2003

  • 'At mihi iam parvo caelestia sacra placebant, inque suum furtim Musa trahebat opus.

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • = For _os_ 'grandness of utterance' Professor R.J. Tarrant compares _Am_ II i 11-12 'ausus eram, memini, caelestia dicere bella ... et satis _oris_ erat'.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • _Tr_ II 57-58 'optaui peteres caelestia sidera tarde,/parsque fui turbae parua precantis idem', and _Tr_ V ii 51-52, V v 61-62, V viii

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Scipionis_, I, 14, § 2: "Nihil aliud esse deum nisi caelum ipsum et caelestia ipsa quae cernimus, ideo ut summi omnipotentiam dei ostenderet posse vix intellegi."

    The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism Franz Cumont

  • Whether these _caelestia carmina belli_, as Martial calls them, ever existed, save in the imagination of courtiers and servile poets, there is nothing to show.

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

  • A. di, precor, hunc iuuenem, quem uos (neque fallor) ab ipso aethere misistis, post longa reducite uitae tempora uel potius mortale resoluite pensum et date perpetuo caelestia fila metallo: 140 sit deus et nolit pensare palatia caelo!

    A Singing Match Calpurnius 1912

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