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  • Naphthali ut cerva dimissa, dans eloquia pulchritudinis.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

  • Et omnia mihi dimissa esse fateor, et quae mea sponte feci mala, et quae te duce non feci.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • Et omnia mihi dimissa esse fateor, et quae mea sponte feci mala, et quae te duce non feci.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • Poenorum dimissa cohors. quae maesta repulsa ac minitans capto patrias properabat ad oras. prosequitur volgus, patres, ac planctibus ingens personat et luctu campus. revocare libebat interdum et iusto raptum retinere dolore.

    Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

  • Aliud discrimen hoc in canone uxores inter et maritos ponitur, quod uxor injuste dimissa, si ab alia ducatur, adulterii notam non effugiat; dimissus autem injuste maritus nec adulter sit, si aliam ducat, nec quae ab eo ducitur, adultera.

    NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

  • 'Qui semel adspexit quantum dimissa petitis Praestent, mature redeat repetatque relicta.'

    Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • ... invasit ferrum, sed ponere, norat; praetulit arma togae, sed pacem armatus amavit: iuvit sumpta ducem iuvit dimissa potestas.

    Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

  • longius aut propius mors sua quemque manet. tu quoniam es, mea lux, magno dimissa periclo, 25

    Cynthia's Sickness 1912

  • Nor is it the participle feminine of mittere, with a noun understood ( "oblatio missa ad Deum", "congregatio missa", i.e., dimissa -- so Diez, "Etymol.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

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