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  • Pater partum proprie pecunia posuit which in other versions is rendered Petre Pater Patrum, Papisse Prodito Partum, meaning “O Peter, father of fathers, betray the child-bearing woman pope.”

    Archive 2009-02-01 elena maria vidal 2009

  • Benedicite gentes Dominum Deum nostrum et obaudite vocem laudis ejus: qui posuit animam meam ad vitam et non dedit commoveri pedes meos.

    Archive 2009-05-01 bls 2009

  • The word “nefastus” in this sense does not signify unfortunate; on the contrary, nefastus and nefandus were the attributes of unfortunate days in another sense, signifying days in which people must not plead; days worthy only to be forgotten; “ille nefasto te posuit die.”

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • In quibus posuit et hoc verbum iniquum, quod dicunt, nihil prodesse parvulis ad salutem lavacrum baptismi, et debere eos reservari usque dum perveniant ad annos discretionis. back

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

  • Cistam posuit ex Medicorum consilio prope eum, in quem alium se mortuum fingentem pacuit; hic in cista jacens, &c. 3467.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Cati, Maymones, et aliqua faciem hominis habentia, et dum sic starem congregauerunt se circa ipsum, 4000. de illis animalibus, et se in ordinibus collocauerunt, coram quibus posuit paropsidem et dabat eis comedere, et cum comedissent iterum cymbalum percussit, et omnia ad loca propria redierunt.

    The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

  • Iste senex cùm viderit aliquem iuuenem formosum et robustum, posuit eum in illo paradiso; Per quosdam autem conductus descendere facit vinum et lac abundantèr.

    The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

  • Et faciens imagines cupreas hominum, vnamquanque posuit in sella super equum.

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

  • Regis, Reginae, Principum Henrici et Caroli Gemmarius, bene merenti, non sine lachrymis, hoc Monumentum pie posuit.

    The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

  • Thomas: Si tibi probauimus Christum verum Deum et hominem esse, qui legem posuit inter homines, et Machometus è contrario venit, et legem contrariam docuit, si sapiens sis optime scire poteris, quid de eo dicendum sit.

    The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

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