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The word Cicero uses, lectulus, meant not just a bed for sleeping, but one for conversation and study — perhaps because of its partial homophony with legere, lectus, "gather by picking" (like flowers) and "read."
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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Nam vel nulla ac orci vestibulum mattis fringilla sit amet lectus.
Liberal Party Communications - 'Which button do I push on the fax machine'? 2009
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Vestibulum augue diam, tempor id ornare sit amet, molestie vel lectus.
Why describe characters? maryrobinette 2009
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Et cibus quidem glandes erant, potus aqua, lectus sub divo, &c. 6477.
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How her cooks managed to keep on presenting novelties eluded him, but his friends were lost in an ecstasy of edibles that left them little time to watch what the couple on the lectus medius were doing.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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How her cooks managed to keep on presenting novelties eluded him, but his friends were lost in an ecstasy of edibles that left them little time to watch what the couple on the lectus medius were doing.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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Statio siquidem ac lectus et currus, filtra et vestes, et quicquid talium habent, à nullo tanguntur, sed ab hominibus tanquam immunda respuuntur.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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Ipse verò super solium longum sedebat et latum sicut lectus, totum deauratum, ad quod ascendebatur tribus gradibus, et vna domina iuxta eum.
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Ipse ver� super solium longum sedebat et latum sicut lectus, totum deauratum, ad quod ascendebatur tribus gradibus, et vna domina iuxta eum.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Statio siquidem ac lectus et currus, filtra et vestes, et quicquid talium habent, � nullo tanguntur, sed ab hominibus tanquam immunda respuuntur.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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