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Flere vetat? — — — who can blame a tender mother if she weep for her children?
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Quare cum glacies hæc Historica nec sit elementaris, vt ex præsenti loco Frisij optimè sequi iam toties monuimus: nec spiritualis, nec infernalis, quod vtrúmque breuibus, solidis tamen rationibns demonstrauimus: nec coelestis materiæ, quod opinari religio vetat: relinquitur omnino, vt secnndum eosdem Historicos nulla sit, quam tamen illi tàm cum stupenda admiratione prædicant,
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Quare cum glacies h鎐 Historica nec sit elementaris, vt ex pr鎠enti loco Frisij optim� sequi iam toties monuimus: nec spiritualis, nec infernalis, quod vtr鷐que breuibus, solidis tamen rationibns demonstrauimus: nec coelestis materi�, quod opinari religio vetat: relinquitur omnino, vt secnndum eosdem Historicos nulla sit, quam tamen illi t鄊 cum stupenda admiratione pr鎑icant,
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Early and radical thinkers like Tertullian went even so far as to believe that God does not permit any imitation of this world (omnem similitudinem vetat fieri; De spectaculis, XXIII); the iconoclasts thought the same; Scholastics, although free from such extreme views, believed that only spiritual representations are important.
MIMESIS W. TATARKIEWICZ 1968
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'Mox ubi bulla rudi demissast aurea collo, matris et ante deos libera sumpta toga, tum tibi pauca suo de carmine dictat Apollo et vetat insano verba tonare foro.'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat inchoare longam,
On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions Samuel Felton
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All this, no doubt, is broad caricature -- but "ridentem dicere verum quid vetat?"
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Various
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All this is no reason why the world should like it, however; and we fancy that the Question, _Ridentem dicere verum quid vetat?
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 Various
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_Agam_. quod non vetat _lex_, hoc vetat fieri pudor.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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Synodus Laodicena vetat, can. 58, in domibus fieri oblationem ab episcopis vel presbyteris.
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