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  • Circumdederunt me gemitus mortis, dolores inferni circumdederunt me: et in tribulatione mea invocavi Dominum, et exaudivit de templo sancto suo vocem meam.

    Archive 2009-02-01 2009

  • Musae Jovis, his tribute to Josquin, uses Circumdederunt me gemitus mortis, a chant Josquin himself had used in Nymphes, nappés, as a cantus firmus repeated in progressively reduced values.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009

  • Campus aget gemitus, vel que Tyberine, videbis Funera, cum tumulum, preter labere recentem.

    Travels through France and Italy 2004

  • Sed dum hæc tuis auribus à me occinuntur, utinam gemitus meos altissimos, qui sub hac ad te Apostrophe latent, Serenis simæ Regiæ

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • Sed dum h鎐 tuis auribus � me occinuntur, utinam gemitus meos altissimos, qui sub hac ad te Apostrophe latent, Serenis sim� Regi�

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • [Marginal note: Filius natu minimus Edwardi 3.], multis moerentibus, iter apparauit vers鵶 le Pruys: quem non Loudinensium gemitus, non communis vulgi moeror retinere poterant, quin proficisci vellet.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • _Met_ VI 565-66 'dat gemitus fictos commentaque funera narrat,/et lacrimae _fecere fidem_' and Caesar _BC_ II 37 1 'nuntiabantur haec eadem Curioni, sed aliquamdiu _fides fieri_ non poterat: tantam habebat suarum rerum fiduciam'.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Argonauts, their second husbands (v. 478): heu iterum gemitus, iterumque novissima nox est.

    Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

  • Augustus primoque rudis flagrauerat aestu; nec nouus unde calor nec quid suspiria uellent, nouerat incipiens et adhuc ignarus amandi. non illi uenator equus, non spicula curae, 5 non iaculum torquere libet; mens omnis aberrat in uulnus quod fixit Amor. quam saepe medullis erupit gemitus! quotiens incanduit ore confessus secreta rubor nomenque beatum iniussae scripsere manus!

    The Marriage of Honorius and Maria Claudian 1912

  • Huc doctae stipentur aues quis nobile fandi ius natura dedit: plangat Phoebeius ales, auditasque memor penitus dimittere uoces sturnus, et Aonio uersae certamine picae, quique refert iungens iterata uocabula perdix, 20 et quae Bistonio queritur soror orba cubili. ferte simul gemitus cognataque ducite flammis funera, et hoc cunctae miserandum addiscite carmen:

    On the Death of a Favourite Parrot 1912

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