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Statim ac eam contemplatus sum, occidi; oculos a virgine avertere conatus sum, sed illi repugnabant.
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Et si conabar a me avertere aspectum narrabat ille quod narrabat, et tu me rursus opponebas mihi, et impingebas me in oculos meos, ut invenirem iniquitatem meam et odissem.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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Sed consul, uti statuerat, oppida castellaque munita adire, partim vi, alia metu aut praemia ostentando avertere ab hostibus.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Adstantium aliquis misero colaphos continuo ingerebat, quos ille objectis manibus avertere studebat .....
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Quod petis, est nusquam: quod amas avertere, perdes.
The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700
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Adstantium aliquis misero colaphos continuo ingerebat, quos ille objectis manibus avertere studebat .....
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Conjugis ut magicis fanos avertere facris Expcriar fenfus: nihil hic nifi carmina defunt.
P. Virgilii Maronis opera: emendabat et notulis illustr. G. Wakefield Virgil, Publius Vergilius Maro 1796
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Profuit xncenfos aedus avertere, et inter Ima ferire pedis falientem iknguine venam:
P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796
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Conjugis ut magicis fanos avertere facris Expcriar fenfus: nihil hic nifi carmina defunt.
P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796
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Cum ille bene cupiat, equidem non poffum avertere.
Pentateuchus ex recensione textus hebraei et versionum antiquarum latine versus notisque philologicis [microform] Dathe, Johann August, 1731-1791, ed 1791
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