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In some parts of Greece at this day, like those old Jews, they will not believe their wives are honest, nisi pannum menstruatum prima nocte videant: our countryman [6141] Sands, in his peregrination, saith it is severely observed in Zanzynthus, or Zante; and Leo Afer in his time at Fez, in Africa, non credunt virginem esse nisi videant sanguineam mappam; si non, ad parentes pudore rejicitur.
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Vltra transiui per mare Oceanum versus meridiem, et transiui per multas contratas et insulas, quarum vna vocatur Moumoran, et habet in circuitu 2000. milliaria, in qua homines portant facies caninas et mulieres similitèr, et vnum bouem adorant pro Deo suo, et ideo quilibet vnum bouem aureum vel argenteum in fronte portat: Homines illius contratæ et mulieres vadunt totaliter nudi, nisi quod vnum pannum lineum portant ante verenda sua.
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Sed non placebat ei, quia non ferebamos aliquem pannum pretiosum.
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Sed non placebat ei, quia non ferebamos aliquem pannum pretiosum.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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He says distinctly that she was _not_ blindfolded, and that she pressed each ploughshare with the whole weight of her body: "Emma vero nullam mamphoram sive pannum ante oculos habens -- super novem vomeres novem passus faciens et singulos eorum totius corporis pleno pressens pondere."
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Probibitum erat etiam in eadem lege, ne quis emeret vivum animal vel pannum usatum sine plegiis et bonis testibus.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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Canna Indis eft virga, qua ligna, pannum & telam x * n% dimetiuntur, 9c haec eadem Italis cft Canna, Romae odo palmos aequans.
De antiquitate et affinitate linguæ zendicæ, samscrdamicæ, et germanicæ ... 1798
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