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- noun Plural form of
proemium .
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Examples
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Manet spectator cunctorum desuper praescius deus, bonis proemia, malis supplicia dispensans.
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_proemia_, or preludes, and served the rhapsodists either as introductory strains for their recitation, or as a transition from the festivals of the gods to the competition of the singers of heroic poetry.
Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities Anne C. Lynch Botta 1853
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a public examination, he saw me standing, as a mere spectator, not far from his chair, while he distributed the silver/proemia virtulis et diligentioe/.
Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1790
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