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It must get incredibly annoying constantly to encounter people pointing imaginary wands at you, screaming: "Stupefy" and: "Expecto patronum".
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Quem patronum rogaturus, cum vix justus sit securus?
Archive 2009-06-01 bls 2009
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[2096] Opiniones quasvis et decreta contra verbum Dei astruunt, ne non offendant patronum, sed ut retineant favorem procerum, et populi plausum, sibique ipsis opes accumulent.
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Note 118: VW 3.6, pp. 129 — 32, at 130: "amicum suum qui penes uos est uisitare dilectissimum"; and p. 131: "Ecce regina celi et domini mater patronum huic ecclesie adeo assignatum martirem Willelmum amicum equidem suum uisitare dilectum uenit, coronauit, eique pro libito curandi potestatem contulit." back
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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“I grieve,” says he, in his epistle to Jerome, “that so great a man should be the patron of a lie.” — (patronum mendacii).
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Cum igitur h鎐 mihi subeunda sit alea, quod omnibus scriptum aliquod edituris in more positum animaduerto, id mihi hoc tempore solicit� curandum est: Nemp� vt patronum & mec鎛atem aliquem huic meo commentariolo qu鎟am, sub cuius nomine & numine, tutius in vulgi manus exeat.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Cum igitur hæc mihi subeunda sit alea, quod omnibus scriptum aliquod edituris in more positum animaduerto, id mihi hoc tempore solicitè curandum est: Nempè vt patronum & mecænatem aliquem huic meo commentariolo quæram, sub cuius nomine & numine, tutius in vulgi manus exeat.
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Plunging a hand down the neck of his robes, he whipped out his wand and roared, "Expecto patronum!"
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Rowling, J. K. 1999
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Tiberini, quod me paene adhuc puerum patronum cooptavit ...
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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O Libane, mi patrone, mi trade istuc. magis decorumst libertum potius quam patronum onus in via portare.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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