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  • [76] _Singulos ambire_, 'to go about addressing individual persons,' has at the same time the meaning of 'attempting to gain them over by intreaties or promises.'

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • Tantum illud vereor, ne quos privata amicitia Jugurthae parum cognita transversos agat, quos ego audio maxima ope niti, ambire, fatigare [104] vos singulos, ne quid de absente incognita causa statuatis, fingere me verba et fugam simulare, cui licuerit in regno manere.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • Candidates went about to solicit votes (_ambire_,) accompanied by a nomenclator, whose duty it was to whisper the names of those whose votes they desired; for it was supposed to be an insult not to know the name of a Roman citizen.

    Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed) Charles K. Dillaway

  • [Footnote 355: 'Levitates quippe seditionum et ambire propriae civitatis incendium, non est velle Romanum.'] 'But we are informed by Count Arigern [356] that the populace of Rome, enraged at the punishment inflicted on some Christian servants who had murdered their Jewish masters, has risen in fury and burned their synagogue to the ground [357], idly venting on innocent buildings their anger against the men who used them.

    The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator Senator Cassiodorus 1872

  • This was called _ambitio_ (from _ambire_, to go round), whence is derived the English word _ambition_.

    Outline of Universal History George Park Fisher 1868

  • _Bribery at their election_, is the meaning of the word _ambitus_, for _ambire_, as Cortius observes, is

    Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War 86 BC-34? BC Sallust 1844

  • "Quum autem Pennus tanta gratia plurinum apud regem valeret, et per id perplures sibi amicos acquireret, illum omnes, etiam qui modo aliqua notitia erant conjuncti, quoties aliquid a rege postulandum agendumve apud regem esset, adire, ambire, orare, ut eos apud regem adjuvaret."

    The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829

  • Biletnikoff Award (Miglior Wide Receiver): il must rappresentato dal target preferito di McCoy, Jordan Shipley, vera arma in pi dellattacco dei Longhorns che potrebbe ambire ad un buon ingaggio in NFL sullonda della migliore stagione giocata al college, che lo ha consacrato sia come ricevitore, 1,204 yds e 9 TD finora, che come returner, pacifist si rivelato una vera e propria spina nel fianco per gli special team avversari correndo per 306 yds e 2 TD in 47 ritorni.

    Archive 2009-12-01 admin 2009

  • Biletnikoff Award (Miglior Wide Receiver): il must rappresentato dal target preferito di McCoy, Jordan Shipley, vera arma in pi dellattacco dei Longhorns che potrebbe ambire ad un buon ingaggio in NFL sullonda della migliore stagione giocata al college, che lo ha consacrato sia come ricevitore, 1,204 yds e 9 TD finora, che come returner, pacifist si rivelato una vera e propria spina nel fianco per gli special team avversari correndo per 306 yds e 2 TD in 47 ritorni.

    Rites of Autumn Blog Archive College Football Awards: i finalisti. admin 2009

  • Analogia inter hoc villorum genus eft, & ca? ca receptacula mucofa pifcium, qua* ventriculos numerofa ambire folent (u).

    Elementa physiologiae corporis humani .. 1776

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