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Isn't it amusing that 'altitudo' gets translated as 'depth', exactly the opposite of its original meaning?
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[3183] Ex.xxvii. 1; "altitudo" in the text must be exchanged for
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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I love to lose myself in a mystery; to pursue my reason to an O altitudo!
Religio Medici 2007
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Ideo boni viri aliquando gratiam non accipiunt, ne in superbiam eleventur venositate jactantiae, ne altitudo muneris neglentiores efficiat.
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Quoniam angustiae itinerum et altitudo tectorum, non perinde Solis calorem admittit.
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My worthy reader, let us both together exclaim: “O altitudo ignorantiarum!”
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It's from Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Chapter 11, verse 33 in the Vulgate: o altitudo divitiarum sapientiae et scientiae Dei! quam inconprehensibilia sunt iudicia eius et investigabiles viae eius!
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I love to lose my self in a mystery, to pursue my Reason to an O altitudo!
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A dear friend of mine used to love the exclamation "O altitudo!" for its undoubted phonesthetic magnificence, having encountered it in Thomas Browne's Religio Medici 1643:IX.
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Domini nominatur, quod constructum est in forma rotunda, cuius circumferentiæ diameter habet 64 cubitos, et altitudo eius 126, et intrinsecus pro sustentatione ædificij, multi pilarij.
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