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  • Eleganter enim et ueraciter Alexandro illi Magno quidam comprehensus pirata respondit.

    Harper's Magazine 2009

  • Possessoribus atque Conductoribus diversarum massarum ad quietem convenientium ... reos inveniat, '&c.] [Footnote 569:' Inter ipsa initia comprehensus fustuariae subdatur ultioni. '] [Footnote 570:' Pompatus mala nota. ']' This fair, which according to the old superstition was named

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

  • "Quis eorum comprehensus est in sacrificio (cum his legibus sta prohiberentur) et non negavit?"] [Footnote 58: Libanius (pro Templis, p. 17, 18) mentions, without censure the occasional conformity, and as it were theatrical play, of these hypocrites.] [Footnote 59: Libanius concludes his apology (p. 32) by declaring to the emperor, that unless he expressly warrants the destruction of the temples, the proprietors will defend themselves and the laws.] [Footnote 60: Paulinus, in Vit.

    History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 Edward Gibbon 1765

  • “Quis eorum comprehensus est in sacrificio (cum his legibus sta prohiberentur) et non negavit?”] 58 Libanius (pro Templis, p. 17, 18) mentions, without censure the occasional conformity, and as it were theatrical play, of these hypocrites.] 59 Libanius concludes his apology (p. 32) by declaring to the emperor, that unless he expressly warrants the destruction of the temples, the proprietors will defend themselves and the laws.] 60 Paulinus, in Vit.

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

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