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Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, qui abundantia pietatis tuæ et merita supplicum excedis et vota: effunde super nos misericordiam tuam, ut dimittas quæ conscientia metuit, et adjicias quod oratio non præsumit.
A Little Rock'n'Roll with our Elevenses John 2008
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Loquetur alius nutibus, et quicquid metuit dicere, significabit affectibus.
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Quare vanum equidem hoc consilium est, si periculum ex illis metuit; sin in tanto omnium metu solus non timet, eo magis refert [284] me mihi atque vobis timere.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Quid a nobis metuit? scimus nos nostrum officium quod est, si solutos sinat.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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Angiporto illac per hortum circum ut clam, ne quis se videret. huc ire familiarium: ne uxor resciscat metuit de argento si mater tua sciat ut sit factum --
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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Iuppiter et caelo metuit dextramque corusca armatus flamma remouet caligine mundum. incursant uasto primum clamore gigantes: hic magno tonat ore pater geminantque fauentes undique discordes comitum simul agmine uenti.
Poetry and Science Anonymous 1912
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A. iam neque damnatos metuit iactare ligones fossor et inuento, si fors dedit, utitur auro; nec timet, ut nuper, dum iugera uersat arator, ne sonet offenso contraria uomere massa, 120 iamque palam presso magis et magis instat aratro.
A Singing Match Calpurnius 1912
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Mutabit igitur mores ac dum fortunam metuit amittere; nequitiam derelinquit.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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Potentem censes qui satellite latus ambit, qui quos terret ipse plus metuit, qui ut potens esse uideatur, in seruientium manu situm est?
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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There is also another passage in Cicero, Cat.i. 3, which seems to favor this sense of the word: _Si te parentes timerent atque odissent tui, neque eos ullâ ratione placare posses, ut opinor, ab eorum oculis aliquò concederes; nunc te patria, quae communis est omnium nostrum parens odit ac metuit_, etc.
Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War 86 BC-34? BC Sallust 1844
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