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Animo errat, et quidvis obvium loquitur, vigilias absque causa sustinet, et succum corporis subito amisit.
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Islandia vix, ac ne vix quidem, nomine tenus, alioqui innotuerat, ad huius gentis opprobrium et contemptum armauit: quam � ciue vestro acceptam iniuriam, iam 30. annos, et plus e�, Islandia sustinet.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Islandia vix, ac ne vix quidem, nomine tenus, alioqui innotuerat, ad huius gentis opprobrium et contemptum armauit: quam à ciue vestro acceptam iniuriam, iam 30. annos, et plus eò, Islandia sustinet.
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-- Ed. [146] Scimus quam lubricus sit lapsus, dum aliunde nobis flabella suscitat Satan: quia videmur culpa exempti, si ejus partem sustinet qui nos ad flagitium inducit.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996
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* Scimus quam lubricus sit lapsus, dum aliunde nobis flabella suscitat Satan: quia videmur culpa exempti, si ejus partem sustinet qui nos ad flagitium inducit: [801] 1
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996
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= Ovid has in mind Virgil's description of the freezing of a Scythian river (_G_ III 360-62) 'concrescunt subitae currenti in flumine crustae,/undaque iam tergo ferratos sustinet orbis,/puppibus illa prius, patulis nunc hospita plaustris'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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= Similar instances of hyperbaton at 28 'quod fecit quisque tuetur opus', _Met_ IV 803 'pectore in aduerso quos fecit sustinet angues', and _Fast_ VI 20 'tum dea quos fecit sustulit ipsa metus'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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= Compare _Met_ XIII 7-8 (Ajax speaking of Ulysses) 'at non Hectoreis dubitauit cedere flammis,/quas ego sustinui, quas hac a classe fugaui' and _Met_ XIII 384-85 (the death of Ajax) 'Hectora qui solus, qui ferrum ignesque Iouemque/sustinuit totiens, unam non sustinet iram'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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And at the end: "Dii te servent, per quos et eorum atque cunctorum mortalium communem patrem, universi mortales, quos terra sustinet, mille modis concordi discordia, veneramur et colimus."
The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism Franz Cumont
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Et quia caritas omnia sustinet, ticionem ardentem in stagnum proiecit, et feruore [- rem MSS.] dilectionis mittentis in aquis preualente [preualens MSS.] ad pauperem usque peruenit.
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