mulieris

And there tended to be a similar sort of distinction — though perhaps less starkly delineated — between 3rd-dec. mulier, mulieris (“adult female human”) and 1st-dec. femina, feminae (“a lovely, curvy, nurturing, MILF-y Real Woman”).

The Volokh Conspiracy » PC 2010

And there tended to be a similar sort of distinction — though perhaps less starkly delineated — between 3rd-dec. mulier, mulieris (“adult female human”) and 1st-dec. femina, feminae (“a lovely, curvy, nurturing, MILF-y Real Woman”).

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Note 38: Burton, 340: "… sanctum Hughonem puerum parvulum ix. annorum cujusdam pauperculae mulieris filium unicum, scholarem …" See below on the parallels in the miracle of the singing boy. back

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

An old fellow, as Lycistrata confesseth in [5879] Aristophanes, etsi sit canus, cito puellam virginem ducat uxorem, and 'tis no news for an old fellow to marry a young wench: but as he follows it, mulieris brevis occasio est, etsi hoc non apprehenderit, nemo vult ducere uxorem, expectans vero sedet; who cares for an old maid? she may set, &c.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Sermo 66.10, p. 184: Numquid minor fide Chananeae mulieris, quam constat et filiae sufficere potuisse, et sibi?

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

Principis mulieris zelotypae est in alias mulieres quas suspectas habet, odium inseparabile.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Some of our astrologers will effect as much by characteristical images, ex sigillis Hermetis, Salomonis, Chaelis, &c. mulieris imago habentis crines sparsos, &c. Our old poets and fantastical writers have many fabulous remedies for such as are lovesick, as that of Protesilaus 'tomb in Philostratus, in his dialogue between Phoenix and Vinitor: Vinitor, upon occasion discoursing of the rare virtues of that shrine, telleth him that

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Paulus Abbas Eremita tanta solitudine, perseverat, ut nec vestem, nec vultum mulieris ferre possit, &c. 2519.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Oper.subcis. mulieris liberius et familiarius communicantis cum omnibus licentia et immodestia, sinistri sermonis et suspicionis materiam viro praebet.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Phaerus Aegypti rex de caecitate oraculum consulens, visum ei rediturum accepit, si oculos abluisset lotio mulieris quae aliorum virorum esset expers; uxoris urinam expertus nihil profecit, et aliarum frustra, eas omnes (ea excepta per quam curatus fuit) unum in locum coactas concremavit.

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