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  • Ille mansuetudine et misericordia clarus factus, huic severitas dignitatem addiderat.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • Ad haec Q. Marcius respondit: 'Si quid ab senatu petere vellent, ab armis discedant, Romam supplices proficiscantur; ea mansuetudine atque misericordia senatum populumque Romanum semper fuisse, ut nemo unquam ab eo frustra auxilium petiverit.'

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • "Infinitæ copiæ pecuniam, non simplici cum mansuetudine sed cum ore imperioso ab eis exegit." —

    London and the Kingdom - Volume I

  • -- _Ea, mansuetudine atque misericordia senatum populumque Romanum, semper fuisse.

    Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War 86 BC-34? BC Sallust 1844

  • Receive the word in mansuetudine, ‘with meekness’.

    The Ten Commandments 1692

  • Christiani nominis ac religionis hostem, quomodo illius scilicet furori et conatibus durabili et perpetuo belli apparatus resisi posit; deinde et de dissensionibus in causa nostrae sanctae religionis et Christianae fidei, et ut in hac causa religionis partium opiniones ac sententiae inter sese in caritate, lenitate et mansuetudine mutua audiantur coram, intelligantur et ponderentur, ut illis, quae utrinque in Scripturis secus tractata aut intellecta sunt, sepositis et correctis, res illae ad unam simplicem veritatem et Christianam concordiam componantur et reducantur; ut de coetero

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • It may be summed up in this saying of Saint Isaac's: _In mansuetudine et in tranquillitate, simplifica animam tuam_. '"

    The Cathedral 1877

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