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  • Note 34: "Cl [audio] Ptolomaeo Alexandrino, ob certam astrorum dimensionem, inductasq [ue] orbi terrarum lineas, vigiliis laboriq [ue] aeterno Fed [ericus] dedit."

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • Habent autem in illis, et vlterioribus partibus hunc vsum: si quando castrum ab hostibus fuerit sic obsessum, quòd Dominus eius non possit emittere nuncium amico suo remotè moranti, recipit columbam olim in castro, vel domo amici natam, vel educatam, quam hic sibi per certam prouisionem allatam detinuit incaueatam, et scriptas quas vult literas alligans collo columbæ, dimittit liberam volare, quæ protinus festinat ad focum propriæ natiuitatis.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Iterum philosophi ad aliud punctum attendunt, et cùm peruentum fuerit, iterum praeco clamat; ponite digitum in aurem, et statim dicit, extrahite ipsum; iterùm ad aliud punctum clamat, Buratate farinam: et multa alia faciunt, quæ omnia dicunt certam signifcationem habere, quæ scriberi nolui, nec curaui, quia vana sunt et risu digna.

    The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

  • Et tandem post reformatam inter se pacem mulieres inito consilio statuerum se solas absque viris dominari in terra, atque ex tunc sumi sibi regimen per certam electionis formam quæ robusta, agilis, sapiens, iuuenis, ac valens apparet in armis.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Atque interim aues regionis rapaces, et immundæ, vt corui, vultures, et aquilæ, quæ pro consuetudine optimè morem norunt, aduolant magno numero in aere: Tuncque Relligiosi cum sacerdotibus detruncant corpus in frusta velut in macello, proijcientes pecias in altum auibus, ac decantantes certam ad hoc compositam orationem, tanquam si nostri sacerdotes cantarent.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Habent autem in illis, et vlterioribus partibus hunc vsum: si quando castrum ab hostibus fuerit sic obsessum, qu騞 Dominus eius non possit emittere nuncium amico suo remot� moranti, recipit columbam olim in castro, vel domo amici natam, vel educatam, quam hic sibi per certam prouisionem allatam detinuit incaueatam, et scriptas quas vult literas alligans collo columb�, dimittit liberam volare, qu� protinus festinat ad focum propri� natiuitatis.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Et tandem post reformatam inter se pacem mulieres inito consilio statuerum se solas absque viris dominari in terra, atque ex tunc sumi sibi regimen per certam electionis formam qu� robusta, agilis, sapiens, iuuenis, ac valens apparet in armis.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Atque interim aues regionis rapaces, et immund�, vt corui, vultures, et aquil�, qu� pro consuetudine optim� morem norunt, aduolant magno numero in aere: Tuncque Relligiosi cum sacerdotibus detruncant corpus in frusta velut in macello, proijcientes pecias in altum auibus, ac decantantes certam ad hoc compositam orationem, tanquam si nostri sacerdotes cantarent.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Et inclinavi me, incurvavique me Iehovae, et benedixi Iehovae Deo domini mei Abraham, qui duxit me per viam veritatis, (vel certam fidem,) ut acciperem filiam fratris domini mei filio ejus.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

  • However, none of them could deny that the bok-Bok game in the dining-room, played by a hundred men, had done a certam amount of damage to the furniture and fittings; nor that the chandelier had not been able to support Mr Courtney's weight and on the third swing had come adrift from the ceiling and knocked a moderately large hole through the floor.

    When the Lion Feeds Smith, Wilbur 1964

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