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- noun Plural form of
tectum .
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At cum incerta volant caeloque examina ludunt contemnuntque favos et frigida tecta relinquunt, instabiles animos ludo prohibebis inani.
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At cum incerta volant caeloque examina ludunt contemnuntque favos et frigida tecta relinquunt, instabiles animos ludo prohibebis inani.
Did the Ancient Romans Know About Colony Collapse Disorder? David Wharton 2007
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Habent et equos armatos, crura etiam tecta, galeas et loricas.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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Supra vero in medio rotundam habent fenestram, vnde ingrediatur lumen, et fumus exire possit: quia semper in medio faciunt ignem: parietes autem et tecta filtro sunt operta Ostia quoque de filtro sunt facta
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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Habent et equos armatos, crura etiam tecta, galeas et loricas.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Supra vero in medio rotundam habent fenestram, vnde ingrediatur lumen, et fumus exire possit: quia semper in medio faciunt ignem: parietes autem et tecta filtro sunt operta Ostia quoque de filtro sunt facta
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Diuites autem habent gladios acutos in fine, ex vna tantum parte incidentes, et aliquantulum curuos: et habent equum armatum, crura etiam tecta.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Ceterum adhuc aedificia Numidarum agrestium, quae mapalia illi vocant, oblonga, incurvis lateribus tecta, quasi navium carinae sunt.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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= 'Opportunity'; compare _Met_ XI 278 '_copia_ ... facta est adeundi tecta tyranni', _EP_ III i 135-37 'cum domus Augusti ... laeta
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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= _Impetus_ + infinitive usually indicates a mad impulse: the only other exception in Ovid is _Met_ V 287-88 (one of the Muses speaking) '_impetus ire fuit_; claudit sua tecta Pyreneus/uimque parat, quam nos sumptis effugimus alis'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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