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  • Cerasta enim Grece cornua dicuntur serpens que hic cornutus esse, ut supra memorauimus perhibetur per quem digne aduentus antichristi assertur, quia contra uitam fidelium cum morsu pestifere predicationis armabitur et iam carnibus potestatis.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • Cerasta enim Grece cornua dicuntur serpens que hic cornutus esse, ut supra memorauimus perhibetur per quem digne aduentus antichristi assertur, quia contra uitam fidelium cum morsu pestifere predicationis armabitur et iam carnibus potestatis.

    Sigh. WMAM. 2008

  • Fit iterum cerastes in semita que quos fideles repperit et sese ad precepti celestis angusta itinera constringens non solum nequitia callide persuasionis impedit sed etiam terrore potestatis premit et in persecutionis angore post beneficia ficte dulcedinis, exercet cornua potestatis.

    Sigh. WMAM. 2008

  • Fit iterum cerastes in semita que quos fideles repperit et sese ad precepti celestis angusta itinera constringens non solum nequitia callide persuasionis impedit sed etiam terrore potestatis premit et in persecutionis angore post beneficia ficte dulcedinis, exercet cornua potestatis.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • Warengrangi, qui de extens finibus in regni nostri finibus advenerint seque sub scuto potestatis nostrae subdiderint, legibus nostris

    Count Robert of Paris 2008

  • Avicenna, or those heathen philosophers, could ever be persuaded to believe, or to subscribe to the least part of them: aut fraudem non detegere: but that as [6501] Vanninus answers, ob publicae, potestatis formidinem allatrare philosophi non audebant, they durst not speak for fear of the law.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Ad istius regni Baccariae extremitates in Orientum finitur terra potestatis

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Cathasa [Marginal note: Vel Sathata.] iungitur per mare Greciæ superior pars potestatis Imperatoris Constantinopolitani, et quasi ad Aquilonem contiguatur regno Syriæ: cuius vna prouincia est terra promissionis, prout hoc satis dictum est suprà.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Nullam æstimo prouinciam esse quæ per se possit eis resistere: quia de omni terra potestatis suæ solent homines ad bellum congregare.

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

  • Grand Can: Et iungitur ei terra potestatis magni Imperatoris Indiæ, qui semper vocatur Præsbyter Ioannes.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

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