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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
samphire .
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2 Your starter for 10: A schoolboy play-on-words between Latin and English, what jocular translation is usually given to the phrase semper ubi sub ubi?
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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English, what jocular translation is usually given to the phrase semper ubi sub ubi?
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Semper enim est, quoniam "semper" praesentis est in eo temporis tantumque inter nostrarum rerum praesens, quod est nunc, interest ac diuinarum, quod nostrum "nunc" quasi currens tempus facit et sempiternitatem, diuinum uero "nunc" permanens neque mouens sese atque consistens aeternitatem facit; cui nomini si adicias "semper," facies eius quod est nunc iugem indefessumque ac per hoc perpetuum cursum quod est sempiternitas.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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For those of you rusty on your Latin, "semper" means "always" (as in the U.S. Marines '"Semper Fi").
Digital Doorway 2009
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Tell your son semper fi, we are proud of all those that serve.
Is This the New Pope and Young World Record Alaska Moose? 2009
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Much of these connections, as well as speculation, were pieced together based on the discovery of Rózsa-Flores 'blog [hu/es/en] called “Sic semper tyrannis” and often translated to “Death to Tyrants.”
Global Voices in English » Bolivia: Piecing Together the Life of an Accused Terrorist 2009
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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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Careful, biz “sic semper tyrannis” is my states motto ..
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February 2nd, 2010 at 3: 39 pm sic semper trollanus!
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Tell your son semper fi, we are proud of all those that serve.
Is This the New Pope and Young World Record Alaska Moose? 2009
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