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Rufinus expressly confirms it: Tribus annis a Maximino persecutione commota, in quibus finem et persecutionis fecit et vitas Hist.l. vi. c.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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45C: "Vix certe media pars hominum vivendo pervenit ad dies suos, in quibus scire possint quid credere debeant, aut quid non." back
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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35 He complained, though not with the strictest truth, “Jam fluxisse annos quindecim in quibus, in Illyrico, ad ripam Danubii relegatus cum gentibus barbaris luctaret.”
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Rapin, and even Hume, have too freely used this suspicious evidence, without regarding the precise and probable testimony of Tennius: Iterea venerunt tres Chinlae a exilio pulsoe, in quibus erant Hors et Hengist.] 129 Nennius imputes to the
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Muratori may justly affirm, nulla saecula fuere in quibus pictores desiderati fuerint, (Antiquitat.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Should the licentiousness of the tale be questioned, I may exclaim, with poor Sterne, that it is hard if I may not transcribe with caution what a bishop could write without scruple What if I had translated, ut viris certetis testiculos amputare, in quibus nostri corporis refocillatio, & c.?]
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Dissert.xxi. p. 354.] 141 Aemilia, Tuscia, ceteraeque provinciae in quibus hominum propenullus exsistit.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Somewhat satisfactorily, the problem of “postera crescam laude” was already knotty in the second or third century, when in his Commentum in Horatium, the North African grammarian and editor Pomponius Porphyrio tagged it with the explanatory remark: “Eleganter, quia semper sunt, quibus haec elocutio noua sit et laudetur.”
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Wherfore, sith the necessitie with honour, and having dwelt comfortably at this and possessed of certain conclusions in respect of handsome painted glass. either the antiquaries highsouled assailant, caused the earth in that hic sapiens, de quo loquor, oculis quibus iste an eye, stood mace in hand.
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Reekes Stoweiâ venit; multum indignatur propter malitiam odiosam et detestandam juvenum istorum, quibus, apud Avunculi mei Thomae occurrerat.
52james commented on the word quibus
From Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, Vol II Cosette, Book Third, Ch II "Two Complete Portraits," where the villainous tavern keeper Thénardier uses "quibus" to seem well-educated. It means "with which," and refers to his plunder from the dead at the battle of Waterloo, "with which" he had the means to invest in his tavern at Montfermeil. Isabelle Hapgood's translation around this word is much better than the Fahnestock/MacAfee/Wilbour version published by Signet, as it locates the use of the word (twice) in bad-guy Thénardier's lingo.
December 26, 2018