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  • Alarum pennae continent in longitudine 12. passus, elephantem in sublime tollere potest.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Ovid has said in vain, that God has created us to look up to heaven: “Erectos ad sidera tollere vultus.”

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Yea, but he hath the world at will that is rich, the good things of the earth: suave est de magno tollere acervo, (it is sweet to draw from a great heap) he is a happy man, [3691] adored like a god, a prince, every man seeks to him, applauds, honours, admires him.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Proprium est ejus animum hilarem reddere, concoctionem juvare, ccrebri obstructiones resecare, sollicitudines fugare, sollicitas imaginationes tollere.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • The common example of this, is that noted passage in Cicero which every schoolboy knows: "Facinus est vincire civem Romanum; scelus verberare, prope parricidium, necare; quid dicam in crucem tollere."

    languagehat.com: AS EVERY SCHOOLBOY KNOWS. 2005

  • -- In the following verbs the perfects were originally reduplicated, but have lost the reduplicating syllable: -- per-cellō percellere perculī perculsus _strike down_ findō findere fidī fissus _split_ scindō scindere scidī scissus _tear apart_ tollō tollere sus-tulī sublātus _remove_

    New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett

  • Quod ibi milites accepere, magis atrocitate rei quam fide nuntii terrentur, simulque barbari animos tollere et in perculsos Romanos acrius incedere.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • Ego quantum ab illis tantum ab Horatio dissentio, qui Lucilium "fluere lutulentum" et "esse aliquid, quod tollere possis" putat.

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • 'In hora saepe ducentos, ut magnum, versus dictabat, stans pede in uno: cum flueret lutulentus, erat quod tollere velles; garrulus atque piger scribendi ferre laborem, scribendi recte; nam ut multum, nil moror.'

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • Apollo puerum primus Priamo qui foret10 postilla natus temperaret tollere: eum esse exitium Troiae, pestem Pergamo.

    Cassandra. ii 1912

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