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Monteforti, a French lord, anno 1345, tanta corvorum multitudo aedibus morientis insedit, quantam esse in Gallia nemo judicasset (a multitude of crows alighted on the house of the dying man, such as no one imagined existed in France).
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"O anima Christiana, respice vulnera morientis, pretium redemptionis."
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Various
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O anima Christiana, respice vulnera patientis, sanguinem morientis, pretium redemptionis.
The Cloister and the Hearth Charles Reade 1849
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Hence Dido has this as a secondary appellation; and mention is made by the Poet of Dii morientis [210] Elizæ, though it was properly the name of a Deity.
A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. Jacob Bryant 1759
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Nodem illam iic maefta fuper morientis alumnae Frigidulos cubito fubnixa pependit ocellos.
P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796
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V« Ugnum, in quo fixa fuerunt memkra morientis » Cnix OliQi. fel*
Theologia dogmatico-moralis secundum ordinem catechismi Concilii Tridentini 1768
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incipe Maenalios mecum, mea tibia, uersus omnia uel medium fiat mare. uiuite siluae: praeceps aërii specula de montis in undas60 deferar; extremum hoc munus morientis habeto.
Pharmaceutria Vergil 1912
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Nessus igitur sagittá Herculis tránsfíxus moriéns humí iacébat; at né occásiónem suí ulcíscendí dímitteret, ita locútus est: "Tú, Déianíra, verba morientis audí.
Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader John [Editor] Kirtland
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New Testament, saying: ” 'Extremum hoc munus morientis habeto.'
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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