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Atqui s鎝e idimus eiusmodi solitariam molem post abactam reliquam glaciem, nullis vectibus nullis machinis detentam, ad l韙tus multis septimanis consistere.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Atqui sæpe idimus eiusmodi solitariam molem post abactam reliquam glaciem, nullis vectibus nullis machinis detentam, ad líttus multis septimanis consistere.
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_ 17, 'Et Cerealis quidem alterius successoris curam famamque obruisset: sustinuit molem Iulius Frontinus, vir magnus, quantum licebat, validamque et pugnacem Silurum gentem armis subegit, super virtutem hostium locorum quoque difficultates eluctatus.'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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_Ann. _ xiii. 31, 'pauca memoria digna evenere, nisi cui libeat laudandis fundamentis et trabibus, quis molem amphitheatri apud campum
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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* [143] Mens agitat molem et magno se corpore miscet.
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TANTA moles labitur fremibunda ex alto ingenti sonitu et spiritu. prae se undas uoluit, uertics ui suscitat: ruit prolapsa, pelagus respargit reflat. ita dum interruptum credas nimbum uoluier, 5 dum quod sublime uentis expulsum rapi saxum aut procllis, uel globosos turbines existere ictos undis concursantibus: nisi quas terrestris pontus strages conciet, aut forte Triton fuscina euertens specus10 supter radices penitus undante in freto molem ex profundo saxeam ad caelum euehit.
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Telegoni iuga parricidae. fastidiosam desere copiam et molem propinquam nubibus arduis, 10
An Invitation to Maecenas Horace 1912
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Blind children of the nineteenth century, let us return to the words of the Swan of Mantua: Mens agitat molem.
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It is labor, in fine, that, as the principle of life, agitates (mens agitat) the material (molem) of wealth, and proportions it.
System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery 1888
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“Opposui molem clypei, texique jacentem,” is amplified by a similar witticism,
The Dramatic Works of John Dryden Scott, Walter, Sir 1882
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