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The process of composing over a cantus firmus he calls ordinare; for the projection of free polyphony he re - serves the term componere:
MUSICAL GENIUS EDWARD E. LOWINSKY 1968
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Si parva licet componere magnis, thou mayst do the like, and therefore be composed in thy fortune.
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Illane parva est servitus amatorum singulis fere horis pectine capillum, calimistroque barbam componere, faciem aquis redolentibus diluere, &c. 5424.
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His speech was somehow like his face, put together with pieces from other people's faces, or like some precious reliquaries I have seen (si licet magnis componere parva, if I may link diabolical things with the divine), fabricated from the shards of other holy objects.
The Name of the Rose Eco, Umberto 1980
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'Quid? cum est Lucilius ausus primus in hunc operis componere carmina morem, detrahere et pellem, nitidus qua quisque per ora cederet, introrsum turpis, num Laelius et qui duxit ab oppressa meritum Carthagine nomen ingenio offensi aut laeso doluere Metello famosisque Lupo cooperto versibus? atqui primores populi arripuit populumque tributim, scilicet uni aequus virtuti atque eius amicis.'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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'Anne quod Euboicos fessus remeare penates auguror et patria senium componere terra?'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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'Lecto Lucilii libro x. vehementer satiras componere instituit, cuius libri principium imitatus est ... cum tanta recentium poetarum et oratorum insectatione, ut etiam Neronem ... culpaverit, cuius versus in Neronem cum ita se haberet:
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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Quos ego --, sed praestat motos componere fluctus.
Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker. Marcus Tullius Cicero
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'Aeneida prosa prius oratione formatam digestamque in xii. libros particulatim componere instituit, prout liberet quidque et nihil in ordinem arripiens.
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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_ 53, 'Peroraturus "stricturum se lucubrationis suae telum" minabatur; lenius comtiusque scribendi genus adeo contemnens, ut Senecam, tum maxime placentem, "commissiones meras" componere, et
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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