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  • What the Malays call demum is not the genuine malaria, but probably due to the merotu, a troublesome little black fly.

    Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 Carl Lumholtz 1886

  • Non demum artemur malis pro qualitate criminis, sed cum beatis compotes simus perennes caelites.

    Verbum Supernum Prodiens bls 2009

  • Non demum artemur malis pro qualitate criminis, sed cum beatis compotes simus perennes caelites.

    Archive 2008-11-01 bls 2008

  • Non demum artemur malis pro qualitate criminis, sed cum beatis compotes simus perennes caelites.

    The Advent Office, Part I bls 2008

  • Artifices ex officinis, arator e stiva, foeminae e colo, &c. quasi numine quodam rapti, nesciis parentibus et dominis recta adeunt, &c. Combustus demum ab Herbipolensi Episcopo; haeresis evanuit.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Note 31: Salimbene de Adam Chronica, ed.O. Holder-Egger, MGH SS 32.30: "Eodem anno, scilicet MCCXII, trium puerorum quasi duodennium, qui se visionem vidisse dicebant, crucis signaculum assumentium in partibus Colonie persuasu multitudo innumera pauperum utriusque sexus et puerorum de Theotonia peregrinantium in Ytalia crucesignatorum accessit, unanimi corde et una voce dicentium se per siccum maria transituros et terram sanctam Ierusalem in Dei potentia recuperaturos; sed demum quasi evanuit universa." back

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • Insuper et eos, qui cum diu vitam egerint inquinatissimam, voluntariam demum poenitentiam et paupertatem, sanctitate venerandos deputant.

    An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 2007

  • These are vain, absurd and ridiculous wishes not to be hoped: all must be as it is, [599] Bocchalinus may cite commonwealths to come before Apollo, and seek to reform the world itself by commissioners, but there is no remedy, it may not be redressed, desinent homines tum demum stultescere quando esse desinent, so long as they can wag their beards, they will play the knaves and fools.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Humores corruptos qui aliter a natura concoqui et domari possint, et demum blande excludi, irritat, et quasi in furorem agit, qui postea mota camerina, tetro vapore corpus varie lacessunt, animumque.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Idolis corpora ac demum accenso rogo omnia corpora comburunt in honorem

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

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