carmina

In later times this was usually taken as referring to libel and slander, but there can be no doubt that the carmina here alluded to were originally magical, and became _carmina famosa_ in the course of legal interpretation.

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

Their carmina were a court of last resort, and their books were guarded by a sacred taboo.

Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family Melvin Moses Knight 1934

[3] The early laws were called "carmina," a term applied to any set form of words, Liv. i.

The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879

Petronius in Tacitus, when he was now by Nero's command bleeding to death, audiebat amicos nihil referentes de immortalitate animae, aut sapientum placitis, sed levia carmina et faciles versus; instead of good counsel and divine meditations, he made his friends sing him bawdy verses and scurrilous songs.

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Ridentur mala componunt carmina, verum gaudent scribentes, et se venerantur, et ultra.

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Scribunt carmina quae legunt cacantes; they serve to put under pies, to [84] lap spice in, and keep roast meat from burning.

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Out of this fountain proceed all those cracks and brags, — [1929] speramus carmina fingi Posse linenda cedro, et leni servanda cupresso — [1930] Non usitata nec tenui ferar penna. — nec in terra morabor longius.

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Potentiorum aedes ostratim adiens, aliquid accipiebat, canens carmina sua, concomitante eum puerorum choro.

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Quis tot carmina componeret, nisi ut inde affectus suos in mulieres explicaret?

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Seria te carmina, honorque aeternus annalium, non haec brevis et pudenda praedicatio colet.

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