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Salento is the sole of the heel -- as local legend has it, the Romans called this finibus terrae, the end of the Earth.
Puglia's Fiery Pizzica Joel Weickgenant 2010
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Warengrangi, qui de extens finibus in regni nostri finibus advenerint seque sub scuto potestatis nostrae subdiderint, legibus nostris
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Aptiores ad masculinam venerem sunt quorum genesi Venus est in signo masculino, et in Saturni finibus aut oppositione,
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‘And yet, sir, I cannot but marvel that you, Colonel, whom I noted to have so much of the amor patritz when we met in Edinburgh as even to vilipend other countries, should have chosen to establish your Lares, or household gods, procul a patrice finibus, and in a manner to expatriate yourself.’
Waverley 2004
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Tartarorum finibus, et si vult aliquas retinere, sibi retinet, alias verò dat suis homimbus.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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Sícque eiecerunt illos cum magna confusione de suis finibus, nec vnquam, quod ad ipsos vltra redierint audiuimus.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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Cap. Porrò cùm in finibus terræ Comanorum ad Bathy perueniremus, benè positi fuimus per vnam leucam à stationibus eius.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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Bk. x., ch. xxvii., pp. 127 and 149; also Cicero de finibus, i.,
The Wisdom of Life 2004
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Atque in finibus illis propinquis morantur duo fratres carnales,
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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Ipsi verò Canes insultum in Tartaros iacientes, morsibus vulnerauerunt multos, et occiderunt sícque illos de suis finibus eiecerunt.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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