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Quare rectius valedutini suae quisque consulet, qui lapsus priorum parentum memor, eas plane vel omiserit vel parce degustarit.
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Charitas parentum dilui nisi detestabili scelere non potest, lapidum fornicibus simillima, casura, nisi se invicem sustentaret.
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Accrescit dulcis affinium turba, duplicatur numerus parentum, fratrum, sororum, nepotum. — 10.
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Affectus parentum in foetus transeunt, et puerorum malicia parentibus imputanda, lib.
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Lemnius subscribes to that of Cardan, and assigns this reason, Quod persolvant debitum languide, et obscitanter, unde foetus a parentum generositate desciscit: they pay their debt (as Paul calls it) to their wives remissly, by which means their children are weaklings, and many times idiots and fools.
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Imagines, si cantantem audieris, ita demulcebere, ut parentum et patriae statim obliviscaris.
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Note 18: Annales S. Medardi Suessionensis, ed.G. Waitz, MGH SS 26.521: "absque licentia et assensu parentum exeuntes." back
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Tamen adhuc faciunt pulcros ciphos de capitibus parentum, vt illis bibentes habeant memoriam eorum in iocunditate sua.
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The juveniles of this age may weel say with the poet — ‘Aetas parentum, pejor avis, tulit Nos nequiores —’
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Factus ergo adolescentior, fastidiens parentum meorum exiguitatem, paternos lares relinquere, et palatia regum aut principum affectans, mollibus vestiri, pomposisque lacinijs amiciri indies ardentius appetebam.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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