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  • Oro supplex et acclinis, cor contritum quasi cinis: gere curam mei finis.

    Bring Back Dies Irae 2009

  • We added supplex pocketing so everything dries down as fast as any swimsuit in the sun.

    BSNYC Product Review: Outlier Summer Shorts BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • Oro supplex et acclinis, cor contritum quasi cinis:

    Archive 2009-06-01 bls 2009

  • Biliosum habui amatorem qui supplex flexis genibus, &c. Nullus recens allatus terrae fructus, nullum cupediarum genus tam carum erat, nullum vinum Creticum pretiosum, quin ad me ferret illico; credo alterum oculum pignori daturus, &c.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Quam tremebundus, quam supplex, quam denique humilis et sollicitus, et toto intentus animo majestati gloriae, in praesentia angelorum, in concilio justorum et congregatione assistere poterit miser homuncio?

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • The adjectival use of _supplex_ is not confined to verse; _OLD supplex_ 2 cites instances from Caesar and Suetonius.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • _Agam_. haud equidem nego hoc esse Pyrrhi maximum in bello decus, saevo peremptus ense quod Priamus iacet, _supplex paternus.

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

  • Armeniusue dedit; quantum crinita sagittis attulit extremo Meroe circumflua Nilo; misit Achaemenio quidquid de Tigride Medus, cum supplex emeret Romanam Parthia pacem.

    The Marriage of Honorius and Maria Claudian 1912

  • [6] "Socrates, quum omnium sapientissime sanctissimeque vixisset, ita in judicio capitis pro se dixit, ut non supplex aut reus, sed magister aut dominus videretur judicum."

    The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion James Stalker 1887

  • Te nostra supplex gloria per cuncta laudet saecula. '

    Veranilda George Gissing 1880

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