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  • Strauerat innumeris Hispanus nauibus 鎞uor, Regnis iuncturus sceptra Britanna suis.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Immensa et maxima ex potestate potentissimi, terribilib鷖que verbis et nunquam finienda innumerabiliue clementia et ineffabili auxilio sanctissimi et pura mente colendissimi tremendissim韖ue modern� 鎡atis monarcha, totius orbis terrarum potentribus sceptra diuidere potens, clementi�, grati鎞ue diuin� vmbra, regnorum prouinciarumue, et vrbium ciuitatumue distributor permultarum: Nos sacratissimus C鎠ar Muzulmanicus Mecch�, id est domus diuin�,

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • - F1r - that maketh us know, Qui sceptra Saevus duro imperio regit, Timet timentes, metus in authorem redit {86}.

    Defence of Poesie 1992

  • From this letter it appears that the critical judgment of La Harpe, confirmed by D'Alembert, sided for _sceptrumque_ as better than _mox sceptra_.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 Various

  • _Oed_. 705 'qui sceptra duro saevus imperio regit, timet timentes: metus in auctorem redit'.

    Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

  • Troia nos tumidos facit nimium ac feroces? stamus hoc Danai loco, unde illa cecidit. fateor, aliquando impotens regno ac superbus altius memet tuli; sed fregit illos spiritus haec quae dare potuisset aliis causa, Fortunae favor. tu me superbum, Priame, tu timidum facis. ego esse quicquam sceptra nisi vano putem fulgore tectum nomen et falso comam vinclo decentem? casus haec rapiet brevis, nec mille forsan ratibus aut annis decem.

    Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

  • Iuppiter excelsa clarabat sceptra columna et clades patiae flamma ferroque parata uocibus Allobrogum patribus populoque patebat.

    De Consulatu Suo 1912

  • Scipiadas, belli fulmen, Carthaginis horror, ossa dedit terrae proinde ac famul infimus esset: 105 adde repertores doctrinarum atque leporum, adde Heliconiadum comites; quorum unus Homerus sceptra potitus eadem aliis sopitu’ quietest: denique Democritum postquam matura uetustas admonuit memores motus languescere mentis, 110 sponte sau leto caput obuius obtulit ipse: ipse Epicurus obit decurso lumine uitae, qui genus humanum ingenio superauit et omnis restinxit stellas exortus ut aetherius sol. tu uero dubitabis et indignabere obire?

    The Powers of Hell Lucretius 1912

  • Eternum Florens regia sceptra feret which has been rendered:

    Three Centuries of a City Library an Historical and Descriptive Account of the Norwich Public Library Established in 1608 and the present Public Library opened in 1857 George A. Stephen 1907

  • De clavibus regni Dei, traditis a Domino Apostolis, multi admiranda garriunt, et ex his cudunt enses, lanceas, sceptra et coronas, plenamque in maxima regna, denique in animas et corpora potestatem.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

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