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  • Utrique igitur parti summe placuit contractus, et die lunae proximo ante festum Sancti Michaelis, apud North insulam de Perth, coram rege et gubernatore et innumerabili multitudine comparentes, conflictum acerrimum inierunt; ubi de sexaginta interfecti sunt omnes, excepto uno ex parte Clankay et undecim exceptis ex parte altera.

    The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

  • Note 62: Jacobi de Voragine Chronicon, ed.L. A. Muratori, RIS 9, col. 45: "placuit autem Ianuensibus ut de civitate recederent, tum quia credebant illos pocius duci levitate quam veritate." back

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • Quid impedit quin credamus ex his initiis, plures alios mundos detegendos, vel (ut Democrito placuit) infinitos?

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • A private man if he be resolved with himself, or set on an opinion, accounts all idiots and asses that are not affected as he is, [399] — — — nil rectum, nisi quod placuit sibi, ducit, that are not so minded, [400] (quodque volunt homines se bene velle putant,) all fools that think not as he doth: he will not say with Atticus,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Deo placuit, maiores illius Tartariæ eleuauerunt de seipsis sibi

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Adeò naturæ, cùm ferarum morem vescendi humanis visceribus in homine genuisset, gignere etiam in toto corpore et in quorundam oculis quoque venena placuit: ne quid vsquam mali esset, quod in homine non esset.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Cùm autem peruentum fuerit ad horam histrionum, time Philosophi dicunt, facite festum domino, et omnes pulsant instrumenta sua, et faciunt maximum sonitum; et statim alius clamat; Taceant omnes, et omnes tacent: Tunc accedunt histrionatrices ante dominum dulcitèr modulantes, quod mihi plus placuit.

    The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

  • In hac terra vidi mirabile quod mihi placuit, scilicet hominem ducentem secum plusquam 4000 perdicum.

    The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

  • Cunctique inter imperatorem et Duces diuisi fuerunt, singulique Duces inter homines suos partes suas, vt eis placuit, diuiserunt.

    The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004

  • Cunctique inter imperatorem et Duces diuisi fuerunt, singulique Duces inter homines suos partes suas, vt eis placuit, diuiserunt.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

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