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Tuba mirum spargens sonum per sepulchra regionum, coget omnes ante thronum.
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Deinde Memphis, regia quondam: juxta quam pyramides, regum sepulchra.
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Claudite jam Parcae nimium reserata sepulchra; Claudite, plus justo, jam domus ista patet!
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Al-Kalkashandi declares in eo lapidem nobilem continere sepulchra Apostoli, Abubecr et Omar, circumcinctum peribole in modum conclavis fere usque ad tectum assurgente, quae velo serico nigro obligatur.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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Tombstones and more tombstones — not the imposing mausolea and sepulchra of the rich and noble which flanked every arterial road out of the city, but the gravestones of simpler souls.
The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990
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_Orcivii_, and _Matones_ and _Otones, Coepiones, sepulchra, coronas, lacrymas_, because that pronunciation is always sanctioned by the judgment of our ears.
The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 Marcus Tullius Cicero
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"Me quidem illæ ipsæ nostræ Athenæ, non tam operibus magnificis exquisitisque antiquorum artibus delectant, quam recordatione summorum virorum, ubi quis habitare, ubi sedere, ubi disputare sit, solitus, studiuseque eorum sepulchra contemplor."
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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"Abstineas, mors atra, precor, non hic mihi mater, Quæ legat in mæstos ossa perusta sinus; non soror, Assyrios cineri quæ dedat odores, et fleat effusis ante sepulchra comis."
The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides
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_Video sepulchra duo_ duorum _corporum_; though in another place he says,
Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker. Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Gangra (350) censures desecrators of the sepulchra martyrum and of the synaxes, sacrifices, and memorials celebrated therein.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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