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An inventory from 1398 included four pair of manacles, eleven chains of iron, six locks and keys, and two pair of stocksall the equipment associated with the care of the mad at that timeand another source states that in 1403 Bethlem was entrusted with the care of six men who had lost their reason sex viri mente capti.3
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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An inventory from 1398 included four pair of manacles, eleven chains of iron, six locks and keys, and two pair of stocksall the equipment associated with the care of the mad at that timeand another source states that in 1403 Bethlem was entrusted with the care of six men who had lost their reason sex viri mente capti.3
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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An inventory from 1398 included four pair of manacles, eleven chains of iron, six locks and keys, and two pair of stocksall the equipment associated with the care of the mad at that timeand another source states that in 1403 Bethlem was entrusted with the care of six men who had lost their reason sex viri mente capti.3
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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Qui omnem pecuniarum contemptum habent, et nulli imaginationis totius munsi se immiscuerint, et tyrannicas corporis concupiscentias sustinuerint hi multoties capti a vana gloria omnia perdiderunt.
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Quidam ex illo capti sunt amore virginum, et libidine victi defecerunt, ex quibus gigantes qui vocantur, nati sunt.
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Anima hominis amore capti tota referta suffitibus et odoribus: Paeanes resonat, &c. 5488.
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[6407] Curtius insinuates, nulla res efficacius multitudinem regit quam superstitio; melius vatibus quam ducibus parent, vana religione capti, etiam impotentes faeminae; the common people will sooner obey priests than captains, and nothing so forcible as superstition, or better than blind zeal to rule a multitude; have so terrified and gulled them, that it is incredible to relate.
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Prae caeteris corporis proceritate et egregia indole mirandus apparebat, caeteri autem capti ejus amore videbantur,
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Quibus quaestui sunt capti superstitione animi, as [6406] Livy saith.
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His eyes flicked up to that wondrous sea-green gaze that had so capti - vated him.
Second Skin Lustbader, Eric 1995
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