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  • My investigations also led me to a phrase from Pliny - "lanae et per se coactae vestem faciunt"

    Archive 2009-04-01 Penny 2009

  • My investigations also led me to a phrase from Pliny - "lanae et per se coactae vestem faciunt"

    Lanarius - person who does stuff with wool Penny 2009

  • If you search out where it came from Pliny's Natural History, Book LXXII, a copy here, the whole sentance reads: "lanae et per se coactae vestem faciunt et, si addatur acetum, etiam ferro resistunt, immo vero etiam ignibus novissimo sui purgamento"

    Archive 2009-04-01 Penny 2009

  • If you search out where it came from Pliny's Natural History, Book LXXII, a copy here, the whole sentance reads: "lanae et per se coactae vestem faciunt et, si addatur acetum, etiam ferro resistunt, immo vero etiam ignibus novissimo sui purgamento"

    Lanarius - person who does stuff with wool Penny 2009

  • Paulus Abbas Eremita tanta solitudine, perseverat, ut nec vestem, nec vultum mulieris ferre possit, &c. 2519.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Barones portantes circulos, et coronulas in capite, et domino suo seruientes; Et quilibet portat vnam vestem de auro et margaritis tot quot valent plus quam decies millies florenorum.

    The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

  • Volo quoque vernas qui domi meae sunt, omnes a praetore urbano liberos, cum matribus dimitti, singulisque libram argenti puri, et vestem unam dori.

    Travels through France and Italy 2004

  • Glaucén mísit; illa autem nihil malí suspicáns dónum libenter accépit, et vestem novam móre féminárum statim induit.

    Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader John [Editor] Kirtland

  • At Déianíra verita né Herculés amórem ergá Iolén habéret, vestem priusquam Lichae dedit, sanguine Nessí ínfécit.

    Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader John [Editor] Kirtland

  • Vix vestem induerat Glaucé cum dolórem gravem per omnia membra sénsit, et pauló post crúdélí cruciátú adfecta é vítá excessit.

    Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader John [Editor] Kirtland

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