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  • Hom. 9. voluit urbem tyrannus evertere, et Deus non prohibuit; voluit captivos ducere, non impedivit; voluit ligare, concessit, &c. 3801.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Sed et podagricum se esse lumborumque solutorum omnibus dixerat, et si non servasset integram simulationem, periclitabatur totam paene tragoediam evertere.

    The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

  • Troy was foredoom’d to fall for ever: Postquam res Asiæ Priamique evertere regnum

    Dedication Vergil 1909

  • Super hanc Dei praedestinationem salus nostra ita fundata est, ut inferorum portae eam evertere nequeant: [10525] 1

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Jam quod traditur de spiritibus vel animabus mortuorum apparentibus aliquando viventibus, et petentibus ab eis officia, quibus liberentur, deputamus apparitiones eas inter ludibria, artes et deceptiones diaboli, qui, ut potest se transfigurare in angelum lucis, ita satagit fidem veram vel evertere, vel in dubium revocare.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Jam quod traditur de spiritibus vel animabus mortuorum apparentibus aliquando viventibus, et petentibus ab eis officia, quibus liberentur, deputamus apparitiones eas inter ludibria, artes et deceptiones diaboli, qui, ut potest se transfigurare in angelum lucis, ita satagit fidem veram vel evertere, vel in dubium revocare.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Esto, nam non lubet conjecturam con - jecturis evertere.

    Doctrina nvmorvm vetervm conscripta a Josepho Eckhel .. 1792

  • Aras eorum debetis evertere, flatvias frangerej lucos igne comburere,

    Pentateuchus ex recensione textus hebraei et versionum antiquarum latine versus notisque philologicis [microform] Dathe, Johann August, 1731-1791, ed 1791

  • Here again is a demonstration of the absurdity of supposing that the world was made for the use of men (v. 156): -- dicere porro hominum causa voluisse parare præclaram mundi naturam proptereaque adlaudabile opus divom laudare decere æternumque putare atque inmortale futurum nec fas esse, deum quod sit ratione vetusta gentibus humanis fundatum perpetuo ævo, sollicitare suis ulla vi ex sedibus umquam nec verbis vexare et ab imo evertere summa, cetera de genere hoc adfingere et addere, Memmi desiperest.

    Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866

  • Here again is a demonstration of the absurdity of supposing that the world was made for the use of men (v. 156): -- dicere porro hominum causa voluisse parare præclaram mundi naturam proptereaque adlaudabile opus divom laudare decere æternumque putare atque inmortale futurum nec fas esse, deum quod sit ratione vetusta gentibus humanis fundatum perpetuo ævo, sollicitare suis ulla vi ex sedibus umquam nec verbis vexare et ab imo evertere summa, cetera de genere hoc adfingere et addere, Memmi desiperest.

    Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series John Addington Symonds 1866

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