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Quid igitur inquies, si sint in coelo plures globi, similes nostrae telluris, an cum illis certabimus, quis meliorem mundi plagam teneat?
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[231] In accordance with the rules on the oratio obliqua, Sallust ought to have written _teneat_.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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In particular, see ix 85-86 'mentiar, an coeat duratus frigore Pontus,/et teneat glacies iugera multa freti'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Audin hunc opera ut largus est nocturna? nunc enim esse negotiosum interdius videlicet Solonem, leges ut conscribat, quibus se populus teneat. gerrae!
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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Itane oportet rem mandatam gerere amici sedulo, ut ipsus in gremio osculantem mulierem teneat sedens? nullo pacto res mandata potest agi, nisi identidem manus ferat ei ad papillas, labra a labris nusquam auferat?
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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[{15}] [Nam docet ut major teneat bis terve minorem;]
The Earliest Arithmetics in English Anonymous 1902
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Origen said [753]: "Nihil in trinitate maius minusve dicendum est cum unius divinitatis fons verbo ac ratione sua teneat universa" [754] ( "nothing in the Trinity is to be called greater or less, since the fountain of one divinity holds all his parts by word and reason").
History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890
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"Ut habeat libertatem commutandi vel donandi in vita sua et post ejus obiturn teneat facultatem relinquendi cuicumque volueris."
The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888
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Oportet igitur eloquentem ecclesiasticum, quando suadet aliquid quod agendum est, non solum docere ut instruat, et delectare ut teneat, verum etiam flectere ut vincat.
The Preacher and His Models The Yale Lectures on Preaching 1891 James Stalker 1887
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Tully argues: Qui teneat causas rerum futurarum, idem necesse est omnia teneat quae futura sint; quod facere nemo nisi Deus potest -- He who knows the causes of future events must necessarily know the events themselves; this is the prerogative of God alone.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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