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  • Haec et multa alia mirabilia in curia illius Canis vidi, quæ nullus crederet nisi videret; et ideò dimitto ea.

    The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

  • Quit est enim praeclarius quam honoribus et republicae muneribus perfunctum senem posee suo jure dicere id quot apud Enium dicit ille Pythias Apollo, se esse eum, unde sibi, si no populi et reges, at onmnes sui cives consilium expetant; suarum rerum incerti quos ego ope mea ex incertis certos compotesque consili dimitto ut ne res temere tractent turbidas.

    Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 George Frisbie Hoar 1865

  • [568: 2] "Pontifex scilicet Maximus, quod est episcopus episcoporum, edicit: Ego et moechiae et fornicationis delicta poenitentia functis dimitto."

    The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution 1854

  • Sed Proconful ftultus, non intelligens contra fe non ho - mines, fed Deum in Martyribus dimicare, necqui» in puerilibus annis ingentes animos fentiebat, puta - bat puerum tormentis infantiae pofte terreri, Deni - que amputaho, inquit, & comam tibi & nafum & auriculos & fic te dimitto.

    Opera omnia sanctorum patrum Latinorum 1789

  • However, Calixtus settled the question for all time when he declared that in virtue of the power of the keys, he would grant pardon to all who did penance — Ego ... delicta pœnitentiâ functis dimitto, or again, Habet potestatem ecclesia delicta donandi (De

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

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