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= Compare _EP_ II vii 69-70 'tempus in agrorum cultu consumere dulce est:/non patitur uerti barbarus hostis humum' and _EP_ III viii 6 'hostis ab agricola uix sinit illa [_sc_ loca] fodi'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Et primo rati humum aridam vento agitari, post ubi aequabilem manere et, sicuti acies movebatur, magis magisque appropinquare vident, cognita re properantes arma capiunt ac pro castris, sicuti imperabatur, consistunt.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Kerani sepulchro humum secum detulit, sciens in spiritu quam utile hoc foret contra futura pelagi pericula.
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Amphion auditus agat, nil tela nec ignes obstiterint, quin ausa luas nostrisque sub armis captivo moribundus humum diademate pulses. tu merito; ast horum miseret, quos sanguine viles coniugibus natisque infanda ad proelia raptos proicis excidio, bone rex. o quanta Cithaeron funera sanguineusque vadis, Ismene, rotabis! haec pietas, haec magna fides! nec crimina gentis mira equidem duco: sic primus sanguinis auctor incestique patrum thalami; sed fallit origo:
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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Nam nisi cultor agri humum foderet, nisi eo loci pecuniam suam depositor obruisset, aurum non esset inuentum.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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Tum illa propius accedens in extrema lectuli mei parte consedit meumque intuens uultum luctu grauem atque in humum maerore deiectum his uersibus de nostrae mentis perturbatione conquesta est.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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Tu te ipse in deteriora trusisti, ueluti si uicibus sordidam humum caelumque respicias, cunctis extra cessantibus ipsa cernendi ratione nunc caeno nunc sideribus interesse uidearis.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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Nunc pede torvus humum nunc cornibus aera lindens,
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879
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"Communemque priùs, ceu lumina solis et auras, Cautus humum longo signavit limite mensor."
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia Thomas Mitchell 1823
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Gtuis canerct Nyropbas? quis humum florentibos herbis Spargeret? aut viridi fontis induceret umbri?
P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796
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