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Ave, cuius conceptio, [Hail, whose conception] solemni plena gaudio, [full of great jubilation] coelestia terrestria [fills Heaven and Earth] nova replet laetitia. [with new joy]
Josquin's Ave Maria 2009
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* Significat omnia ingentia animalia tam terrestria ut dracones, quam aquatica ut balaenas: [1139] 1
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996
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"Significat omnia ingentia animalia tam terrestria ut dracones, quam aquatica ut balaenas."
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996
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"_Pingit et in varios terrestria sydera flores_," [4] and variety of curious and costly workmanship, but also with rare and medicinable herbs sought up in the land within these forty years: so that, in comparison of this present, the ancient gardens were but dunghills and laistowes, [5] to such as did possess them.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
biocon commented on the word terrestria
L. terrestria = land animals (Weysse, Arthur Wisswald, 1911: 496. A synoptic text-book of zoölogy, for colleges and schools. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000057602141;view=1up;seq=534
June 5, 2013