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Note 55: Dinant, p. 23: "Dicit autem ARISTOTELES feminam quodammodo esse marem imperfectum et eius menstruum sanguinem esse indigestum sperma; similem superfluitatem esse sperma viri et menstruum sanguinem mulieris excepto quod superfluitas hec maior in femina est et colorem retinet sanguineum propter defectum caloris digerentis." back
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Sometimes it was divided into two parts, as now in the Roman Breviary, the second part beginning with "O gloriosa Domina" (or "femina").
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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And there tended to be a similar sort of distinction — though perhaps less starkly delineated — between 3rd-dec. mulier, mulieris (“adult female human”) and 1st-dec. femina, feminae (“a lovely, curvy, nurturing, MILF-y Real Woman”).
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And there tended to be a similar sort of distinction — though perhaps less starkly delineated — between 3rd-dec. mulier, mulieris (“adult female human”) and 1st-dec. femina, feminae (“a lovely, curvy, nurturing, MILF-y Real Woman”).
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Literary references to individual imperial women as princeps femina include Ovid, Epistulae ex Ponto 3.1.125 and Ovid, Tristia 1.6.25; the anonymous Consolatio ad Liviam 303 (all referring to Livia); and Macrobius, Saturnalia 2.5.6 (referring to both Livia and Julia).
Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010
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To some ancient observers such women epitomized an aberrant category of female described in Roman literature as a dux femina a woman general, an oxymoron of a title that implied an unnatural combination of male and female characteristics.
Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010
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The philosopher Seneca called her a gravis femina a “serious” or “dignified” woman for her robust advice given many years later to a disgraced great-nephew on how to face his punishment like a man.
Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010
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Presumably, you meant 'Pro homine (or pro femina) changes'.
What should Ming have done? Stephen Tall 2007
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This one and O gloriosa femina or sometimes "O gloriosa domina" are sung to the same tune.
Archive 2009-02-01 bls 2009
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This one and O gloriosa femina or sometimes "O gloriosa domina" are sung to the same tune.
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