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Ego vos elegi de mundo, ut eatis, et fructum afferatis et fructus vester maneat.
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The Alleluia II (mp3), and the Communio (mp3), are both called "Ego vos elegi," taken from John 15:16:
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Here's another version of the Ego vos elegi Alleluia II, along with some images and a bit of commentary.
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Tunc videns periculum loquendi per ipsum, elegi magis facere.
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Tunc videns periculum loquendi per ipsum, elegi magis facere.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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* Non ob aliud dicit, non vos me elegistis, sed ego vos elegi, nisi quia non elegerunt eum, ut eligeret eos; sed ut eligerent eum, elegit eos.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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= Ovid often mentions the alternating pattern of elegiac verse: compare xvi 11 _numeris ... imparibus ... uel aequis_ and the passages there cited, _Am_ III i 8 (of Elegy) 'et, puto, pes illi _longior alter_ erat', and _EP_ III iv 85-86 'ferre etiam molles elegi tam uasta triumphi/pondera _disparibus_ non potuere _rotis_'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Ite, leues elegi, doctas ad consulis aures, uerbaque honorato ferte legenda uiro. longa uia est, nec uos pedibus proceditis aequis, tectaque brumali sub niue terra latet. cum gelidam Thracen et opertum nubibus Haemon 5 et maris Ionii transieritis aquas, luce minus decima dominam uenietis in urbem, ut festinatum non faciatis iter. protinus inde domus uobis Pompeia petetur; non est Augusto iunctior ulla foro.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Ovid's exhortation to his _elegi_ at _Fast_ II 3-6.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Butzbach's eye glanced along the plain Romanesque columns, past the gorgeous tomb of the founder, to the dim splendours of the choir, the words of the familiar Psalm rose to his lips: 'Haec requies mea in saeculum saeculi; hic habitabo, quoniam elegi eam.'
The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London 1901
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