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Ipsi incipiunt scribere sursum, et ducunt lineam deorsum, et, eodem modo ipsi legunt et multiplicant lineas a sinistra ad dextram.
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Ipsi incipiunt scribere sursum, et ducunt lineam deorsum, et, eodem modo ipsi legunt et multiplicant lineas a sinistra ad dextram.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The next day Hadrian set forth again to ride _per lineam murus_ across moor and fell to Luguvallum and the western sea.
Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease
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The Douay has "a strait linen garment" (lineam strictam in the Vulgate).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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A list of Roman officials, civil and military, throughout the empire has come down to us; in this list -- _Notitia Dignitatem et Administratem, tam civilium quam militarium in partibus orientis et occidentis_ -- the portion which relates to the Wall is headed, _Item per lineam
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Lancaster, and garrisoned the new line with new soldiery -- those, namely, which are listed in the Notitia as serving under the Dux Britanniarum, save only the regiments 'per lineam valli'; these last the compiler of the Notitia borrowed from the older order to disguise the loss of the
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Mommsen long ago pointed out that the regiments enumerated in one part of them (the 'per lineam valli' section) are very much the same as existed in the third century.
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Stilicho's reorganization in 395-9, but that one section, headed 'per lineam valli', records troops who had been in Britain in the third century and had been destroyed before 369.
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This garrison had consisted of the regiments known to us by various evidence as posted 'per lineam valli' in the third and early fourth centuries; their places were now filled by soldiers of whom we know absolutely nothing.
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Qui quidem in eo loco invenit se distare per astrolabium ultra lineam equinoctialem gradus 35.
The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest John Fiske 1871
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