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Cerastes serpens dictus, eo quod in capite cornua habeat similia arietum; KERATA enim Graeci cornua vocant: sunt autem illi quadrigemina cornicula, quorum ostentatione, veluti esca, inlice sollicitata animalia perimit.

Archive 2008-06-01 2008

Cerastes serpens dictus, eo quod in capite cornua habeat similia arietum; KERATA enim Graeci cornua vocant: sunt autem illi quadrigemina cornicula, quorum ostentatione, veluti esca, inlice sollicitata animalia perimit.

Sigh. WMAM. 2008

“Camicia,” first found in St. Jerome: — “Solent militantes habere lineas, quas Camicias vocant.”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Sed hominis levitatem Jupiter perspiciens, at tu (iniquit) esto bombilio, &c. protinusque vestis illa manicata in alas versa est, et mortales inde Chrysalides vocant hujusmodi homines.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Qui mihi mittunt munera, ad prandium, ad coenam vocant.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Pliny, in his third book, says that from time immemorial the people of the southern coasts of Spain believed that the sea had forced a passage between Calpe and Abila: “Indigenæ columnas Herculis vocant, creduntque per fossas exclusa antea admisisse maria, et rerum naturæ mutasse faciem.”

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Quot vivos vocant, mortuos plangunt, fulgara frangunt; so on to the past and future tenses, and for how many nights, days, and years!

Roundabout Papers 2006

Quidam vocant hoc mare lacum Asphaltidis, alij fluuium Dæmonum, aut flumen Putre.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

Et alibuantò altius, per eiusdem montis ascensum est vetus Capella, quam vocant Eliæ

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

Adrianus Imperator extruxit, sed non ad formam templi prioris: prædictum tamen excelsum in medio templi locum vocant Iudæi sanctum sanctorum.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004