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In Unyamwezi I found all the standing bedsteads of pole-sleepers and bark-slabs disposed at an angle of about 20 degrees for the purpose of draining off the huge pottle-fulls of Pome (Osirian beer) drained by the occupants; and, comminxit lectum potus might be said of the whole male population.
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Huc mente captos deducunt, et statis orationibus, sacrisque peractis, in illum lectum dormitum ponunt, &c. 2830.
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Verres, against whom Tully so much inveighs, in winter he never was extra tectum vix extra lectum, never almost out of bed, [1419] still wenching and drinking; so did he spend his time, and so do myriads in our days.
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Note 2: RHF, 18: 728A: Ex historia episcoporum Autissiodorensium: "corpus pueri mortui, quod propter interdictum civitatis ecclesiasticam non poterat habere sepulturam, importuno matris pueri excitus clamore et lacrymis, in ipsa episcopi camera ante lectum domini sui episcopi fecit humari in contumeliam ejus et dei contemptum." back
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Inter proceres Thebanos numeratus, lectum habuit genus, frequens famulitium, domus amplas, &c. Apuleius Florid. l.
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Postquam deposuerint domus versa porta ad meridiem, collocant lectum domini ad partem aquilonarem.
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Itàque ducentes eos in lectum, clamantem puerum et plorantem super illam posuerunt, ipsosque commisceri pariter coëgerunt.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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It鄎ue ducentes eos in lectum, clamantem puerum et plorantem super illam posuerunt, ipsosque commisceri pariter co雊erunt.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Postquam deposuerint domus versa porta ad meridiem, collocant lectum domini ad partem aquilonarem.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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V. "Giton præcipuè, _ex dolore in rabiem efferatus_, tollit clamorem, me, utrâque manu impulsum, præcipitat super lectum."
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