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  • Sacrorum contemptor, templi foribus effractis, dum D. Johannis argenteum simulacrum rapere contendit, simulacrum aversa facie dorsum ei versat, nec mora sacrilegus mentis inops, atque in semet insaniens in proprios artus desaevit.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • * Solere reges ostenta cœlestia cæde aliquâ illustri expiare, atque a semet in capita procerum depellere: [11681] 1

    The Death of Death in the Death of Christ 1616-1683 1967

  • So the historian, “Solere reges ostenta cœlestia cæde aliquâ illustri expiare, atque a semet in capita procerum depellere,” Suet. in

    The Death of Death in the Death of Christ 1616-1683 1967

  • * Solere reges ostenta cœlestia cæde aliquâ illustri expiare, atque a semet in capita procerum depellere: [7642] 1

    The Death of Death in the Death of Christ 1616-1683 1967

  • Hi paulatim per connubia Gaetulos secum miscuere, et quia saepe temptantes agros [128] alia, deinde alia loca petiverant, semet ipsi Nomadas appellavere.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • Ubi quisque legatus aut tribunus curabat, eo acerrime niti, [319] neque alius in alio magis quam in sese [320] spem habere: pariterque oppidani agere; oppugnare aut parare omnibus locis, avidius alteri alteros sauciare quam semet tegere, clamor permixtus hortatione, laetitia, gemitu, item strepitus armorum ad coelum ferri, tela utrimque volare.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • Praeterea pollicetur in tempore [312] semet cum exercitu affore.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • 'Causa fuit pater his, qui macro pauper agello noluit in Flavi ludum me mittere, ... sed puerum est ausus Romam portare docendum artis quas doceat quivis eques atque senator semet prognatos.

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • Ceteri nihil suspicantes dant; Cassius semet eo brevi venturum pollicetur ac paulo ante legates ex urbe proficiscitur.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • Ita cum potentia avaritia sine modo modestiaque invadere, polluere et vastare omnia, nihil pensi neque sancti habere, quoad semet ipsa praecipitavit.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

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