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  • Thus can they cunningly counterfeit, as [6105] Platina describes their customs, kiss their husbands, whom they had rather see hanging on a gallows, and swear they love him dearer than their own lives, whose soul they would not ransom for their little dog's, — — — similis si permutatio detur,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Cicero sent his son to the University of Athens, he wished to give him a generous allowance, -- too generous, as we should think, for it amounted to about £640 a year, -- and he asked Atticus whether it could be managed for him by _permutatio_, i.e. exchange, and received an affirmative answer [131].

    Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero W. Warde Fowler 1884

  • The stereotype for polygamy is often rooted in sexism, and it would be nice to recognize all permutatio HudsonSpeaks: Group or plural marriage is most certainly under-represented in the

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • I. Contracts of permutation or reciprocal exchange (permutatio late sic dicta):

    The Science of Right 1790

  • Ita vero elucet,, cum lehoua hic lefum fefe itavpermutare, vt quod faOiurum ille fe fibi per prophetam praedixiflet, "id lefus et faftumnunc fijii et illis ipfis verbis olim in fe diclum efle a; perte innuat: qiiae -, perfonarum permutatio qualis tan -. dem" efl£tj'i nifl cogites, vnius eixisdemque Deitatis, quae per Maiachaeum de praemittendo fibi angelo

    Ioh. Aspontani ad Rud. Plimmelium de deitate Iesu Christi [microform] : epistolae quatuor Aspontanus, Joh 1789

  • D cum T quaedam cognatto, in - pro a ponit a. Rediua t.a. in quit Quiutilianus » quare nimis mi - Caefareae numo Gordrani Pii pro rum, u in vetuftis operibus eadtm eius iroperii Anuo J2«/»'#aJ/umitur. litterarum permutatio obfaraatur.

    Lexicon vniversae rei nvmariae vetervm et praecipve Graecorvm ac Romanorvm cvm observationibvs antiqvariis geographicis chronologicis historicis criticis et passim cvm explicatione monogrammatvm edidit Io. Christophorvs Rasche 1785

  • (permutatio publica), determines the price of all the other things that form products or goods — under which term even the sciences are included, in so far as they are not taught gratis to others.

    The Science of Right 1790

  • Of course he didn’t haul bags and bags of Roman coins away from the Tarsian banking house; he availed himself of permutatio and tucked a little roll of Pergamum parchment into his toga instead.

    The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

  • The word in the New Testament is katallagē, and the verb katallassō, reconciliation, to reconcile; both from allattō, to change, or to turn from one thing, one mind, to another: whence the first native signification of those words is permutatio and permutare, (so Arist.

    The Death of Death in the Death of Christ 1616-1683 1967

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