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Deum enim placare non est opus, quia non nocet; sed daemonem sacrifices placant, &c.
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The corrections suggested included such astounding phrases as the following: the forgiveness of sins becomes "superosque manesque placare"; the Begetting of the Word was to be "Minerva Jovis capite orta"; the Holy Ghost was "Aura Zephyri coelestis", etc.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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Quam quidem ego placare cupio, submovere non audeo.
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879
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There is also another passage in Cicero, Cat.i. 3, which seems to favor this sense of the word: _Si te parentes timerent atque odissent tui, neque eos ullâ ratione placare posses, ut opinor, ab eorum oculis aliquò concederes; nunc te patria, quae communis est omnium nostrum parens odit ac metuit_, etc.
Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War 86 BC-34? BC Sallust 1844
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Et quos officiis placare fi irati fint, vel uicunque propitios nobis reddere ftudemus, eos colere dicimur.
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19 Exaudi, Domine; placare Domine: attende et fac: ne moreris propter temetipsum, Deus meus, quia nomen tuum invocatum est super civitatem et super populum tuum.
Archive 2009-09-01 bls 2009
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19 Exaudi, Domine; placare Domine: attende et fac: ne moreris propter temetipsum, Deus meus, quia nomen tuum invocatum est super civitatem et super populum tuum.
Iustus Es, Domine bls 2009
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& bonum odorem, in mc - muriam placare pro p6 - pulo fuoc £ccli.
Diurnale Noviomense. ad usum regalis ecclesiæ S. Quintini accommodatum. Pars hiemalis (æstiva). 1774
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Arcesila et Carneade recentem, exoremus ut sileat, nam si invaserit in haec, quae satis scite instructa et composita videantur, nimis edet ruinas, quam quidem ego placare cupio, submovere non audeo. (de Legibus,
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Edward Gibbon 1765
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y verbis quserunt placare Judicem, quem fadisiniquis,
Theologia dogmatico-moralis secundum ordinem catechismi Concilii Tridentini 1768
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