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'Adventure' is derived from the Latin advenire, 'to arrive, come about or befall'.
Ben Colclough: Why Do We Travel? Ben Colclough 2011
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'Adventure' is derived from the Latin advenire, 'to arrive, come about or befall'.
Ben Colclough: Why Do We Travel? Ben Colclough 2011
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Iube advenire quaeso: meritissimo eius quae volet faciemus, qui hosce amores nostros dispulsos compulit.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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Nego enim vero, et me advenire nunc primum aio ad te domum.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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Salvos sis, Mnesiloche, salvom te advenire gaudeo.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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In the Christian calendar, the period of preparation for the birth of Christ is called Advent, deriving from the Latin advenire ` to come toward. 'the word yuletide, as a synonym for the Christmas season, dates back to a heathen and then Christian period of feasting about the time of the winter solstice (December
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