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The point to be elucidated was the following: "Dubium est utrum regnum Angliæ possit legitime, imminente necessitate suæ defensionis, thesaurum regni detinere, ne deferatur ad exteros, etiam domino papa sub poena censurarum et virtute obedientiæ hoc petente."
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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But _detinere_ here can have the same meaning 'occupy, keep busy' as it has at the _Metamorphoses_ passage, where A.G. Lee cites the present passage (with Politian's reading) and _Tr_ V vii 39
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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The Auctor Electorum Etonensium objected that _detinui tempus_ was inappropriate: 'poeta tempus detinere noluit, quod scilicet per se morari atque haerere uidebatur inuisum'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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