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The whole is a riddle, an aenigma, an inexplicable mystery.
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The whole is a riddle, an aenigma, an inexplicable mystery.
Archive 2005-05-01 2005
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-- This is a trifling incident, yet perhaps it may partly explain the great aenigma why no effectual resistance is made to a government which is secretly detested.
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-- This is a trifling incident, yet perhaps it may partly explain the great aenigma why no effectual resistance is made to a government which is secretly detested.
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Well into the sixteenth century the cedilla is often found wrongly added to words such as puer, equus, eruditus, epistola; in 1550 the Froben firm was still regularly printing aedo, aeditio; and in the index to an edition of Aquinas, Venice, 1593, aenigma and Aegyptus, spelt in this way, are only to be found under e.
The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London 1901
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This is a trifling incident, yet perhaps it may partly explain the great aenigma why no effectual resistance is made to a government which is secretly detested.
A Residence in France During the Years 1792 1793 1794 and 1795 Lady, An English 1797
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Perperam igitur hunc prologum aenigma vo - cat J. Bondius; ciim sit, ut satira prima, jocis salibusque refertus; quod in unoquoque versu inter - pretando videbitur.
Satirae ad codices Parisinos Achaintre, Nicolas Louis, 1771-1836 1812
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Spbinx Aiper fcopulum aenigma proponens Oedipe« ad cuius pedea paima in fignum viftoriae ob incer - precatum aenigma.
Lexicon vniversae rei nvmariae vetervm et praecipve Graecorvm ac Romanorvm: cvm observationibvs ... 1790
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Accordingly, it may be eafily imagined « how great my pleafure was, when, by an accident no left fortunate than unexpeA» cd, I had an opportunity of overhearing the firft cooverfation that happened be - tween Lucian and Peregrine in the land of fpirtti, and of receiving infbrmation of the ifiM of events and other particulars from the mouth of the latter, wheitby 1 am ena« bled to fupply the deficiencies in Lucitn's account — to illuilrate what is there ob - fcure and incxplicable~and to foWe ihe whole moral aenigma of the life and death of this fingular perfon, in a manner fome - what fatisfadlory, at lead to me.
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