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- noun plural (Zoöl.) A division of butterflies including the satyrs.
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- noun Plural form of
praetor .
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[Footnote 20: Compare Suet _Aug_ 89 3 'componi tamen aliquid de se nisi et serio et a praestantissimis offendebatur, admonebatque praetores ne paterentur nomen suum commissionibus obsolefieri [' be cheapened in prize declamations '-- Rolfe]'.]
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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De eo coacti referre praetores decretum fecerunt 'Ut
The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888
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Duo (praetores) deprecati sunt ne in provincias irent, M. Popillius in Sardiniam: Gracchum eam provinciam pacare &c ....
A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885
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M» intenti foere, missos est in Hispaniam L» Aemilios Paollos praetor, non com aex aecoribos, qoot praetores habere aolent, sed additis sex aliis, qoo facto ejtts praetura auctoritatem accepit con« aolarem.
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B. nATP.lN02. eo modo, qno archon - Fuit hic P. Vitellius patruus Vitellii les, praetores etc. suam icerasie dignt - Aug., cujus opera Germanicus ih bello tatem-passim in nnmis conspicimus.
Doctrina nvmorvm vetervm conscripta a Josepho Eckhel .. Hohler, Emerich Thomas, 1781-1846. [from old catalog] 1792
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Jam porro in provincias, ad qnas regendas proconfoles & praetores finguli fimul quae -- fiores mittebantnr.
Antiqvitatvm romanarvm epitome: ad vsvm seminari neapolit Salvatore Aula 1773
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This epistle will show the learned world to have fallen into two mistakes: One, that Augustus was a patron of poets in general; whereas he not only prohibited all but the best writers to name him, but recommended that care even to the civil magistrate: _Admonebat praetores, ne paterentur nomen suum obsolefieri_, &c. The other, that this piece was only a general discourse of poetry; whereas it was an apology for the poets, in order to render Augustus more their patron.
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 Alexander Pope 1716
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"Ut praetores ex edictis suis perpetuis ius dicerent."] [Footnote 192: All his letters are in the eighth book of those _ad
Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero W. Warde Fowler 1884
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