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At last the Emperor Theodosius punished it with fire as a profanation, because sacro-sanctum esse debetur hospitium virilis animæ.
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There was a wise old heathen once, who said, “Maxima debetur pueris reverentia” — The greatest reverence is due to children; that is, that grown people should never say or do anything wrong before children, lest they should set them a bad example. —
The Water Babies 2007
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“Maxima debetur pueris,” says Jones (a fellow of very kind feeling, who has gone into the Church since), and, writing on his card to Hoskins, hinted to him that a boy was in the room, and a gentleman, who was quite a greenhorn: hence that the songs had better be carefully selected.
The Newcomes 2006
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Maxima debetur pueris reverentia, and still more to damsels; but if boys and girls will never go where they will hear more to injure them than they will usually do amidst the ordinary conversation of
Hunting Sketches 2004
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Poloni� petente, neu� regnum Poloni� ex parte C鎠are� celsitudinis turbaretur vel infestaretur intercedente, Serenitatisque vestr� hanc singularem esse voluntatem exponente, Legati serenitatis vestr� significatio et intercessio c鵰 C鎠are� celsitudini significata fuisset, In fauorem serenitatis vestr�, cui omnis honos et gratia debetur, iuxta modum pr鎑ictum, vt Cosaci facinoros exquirantur et poena perfecta puniantur, aut ratione muneris aliquantuli eorum delicta condonentur, hac inquam conditione liter�
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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_Tr_ V iv 47 'plena tot ac tantis referetur gratia factis', _EP_ I vii 61 'emeritis referenda est gratia semper', and _EP_ III i 79-80 'nec ... debetur meritis gratia nulla meis'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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'Ergo hinc abesto livor, ne frustra gemas, quoniam sollemnis mihi debetur gloria.'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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Coactus tremor debetur animalibus spiritibus inordinatè ac continuo, cum aliquo impetu ad trementium membrorum musculos per nervos propulsis: sive fuerit is universalis, sive particularis, sive corpus fuerit ad huc robustum sive debile, Sylvii de la Boe.
An Essay on the Shaking Palsy James Parkinson
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Latin poet Juvenal: _Maxima debetur pueris reverentia_, and in the declaration of Jean Paul: "I love God and every little child."
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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A similar use of _faenus_ at _EP_ III i 79-81 'nec ... debetur meritis gratia nulla meis./redditur illa quidem grandi cum _faenore_ nobis'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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