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There was not one white man at Zanzibar who could tell how many dotis a day a force of one hundred men required to buy food for one day on the road.
How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004
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Rehani, or a Sohari, or dotis of crimson broad cloth.
How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004
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The bale of choice cloths was opened again next morning, and four royal cloths were this time selected, and two dotis of
How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004
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Matters thus standing, seeing the masters of the chamber of accompts or members of that committee did not fully agree amongst themselves in casting up the number of the Almany whistles, whereof were framed those spectacles for princes which have been lately printed at Antwerp, I must needs think that it makes a bad return of the writ, and that the adverse party is not to be believed, in sacer verbo dotis.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Matters thus standing, seeing the masters of the chamber of accompts or members of that committee did not fully agree amongst themselves in casting up the number of the Almany whistles, whereof were framed those spectacles for princes which have been lately printed at Antwerp, I must needs think that it makes a bad return of the writ, and that the adverse party is not to be believed, in sacer verbo dotis.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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[40] Cf. Ulpian, Tit., vi, 6: Divortio facto, si quidem sui juris sit muller, ipsa habet rei uxoriae actionem, id est, dotis repetitionem; quodsi in potestate patris sit, pater adiuncta filiae persona habet actionem.
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Ita di faxint. illud facito ut memineris convenisse ut ne quid dotis mea ad te afferret filia.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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This episode would probably be an unfathomable enigma had not Suetonius by chance given us the key to its solution: "Nam illud omnem fidem excesserit, quod nuptiis, quas Messalina cum adultero Silio fecerat, tabellas dotis et ipse consignaverit" ( "For that which would pass all belief is the fact that in the marriage which Messalina contracted with the adulterer Silius, he himself [Claudius] should have signed the figures for the dowry").
The Women of the Caesars Guglielmo Ferrero 1906
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Nam et si animam quis contenderit sponsam, vel dotis nomine sequetur animam caro ...
History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890
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He enumerates the chief kinds of Suabian property and promises to write out his pledges in a _libellus dotis_, if the bride will provide the scribe.
Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals William Graham Sumner 1875
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