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Accusing the Jews of having shed "innocent blood," the uncle lists his proofs, including a vague reference to Passover practices, but emphasizes the prophetic dream of William's aunt — note that he refrains from acknowledging her as his wife — and the mourning and accusation by the boy's mother (flebilis mater) .97
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Legimus in obsidione Ierosolymitana, quam flebilis fuerit vox miserrim� matris, filium misellum iam mactatur�.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Legimus in obsidione Ierosolymitana, quam flebilis fuerit vox miserrimæ matris, filium misellum iam mactaturæ.
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There is a fashion of eulogy, as well as of vituperation, and, though the Lottery stood for some time in the latter predicament, we hesitate not to assert that "_multis ille bonis flebilis occidit_."
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 Various
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This is well illustrated in a short but excellent Commentary by my late worthy friend, the Reverend Dr. Lort, of whom it may truly be said, Multis ille bonis flebilis occidit.
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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Multis ille quidem flebilis occidit, 'comes from Horace,
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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Lord Clarendon was there, looking very ill, and on the 27th he died -- 'Multis ille flebilis occidit, nulli flebilior quam mihi.'
Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. John Knox Laughton 1872
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This strength of mind, or rather savage barbarity, was carried to such excess, that even mothers would endeavour, with embraces and kisses, to hush the cries of their children; (516) lest, had the victim been offered with an unbecoming grace, and in the midst of tears, it should be displeasing to the god: _Blanditiis et osculis comprimebant vagitum, ne flebilis hostia immolaretur.
The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) Charles Rollin 1701
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Legimus in obsidione Ierosolymitana, quam flebilis fuerit vox miserrimæ matris, filium misellum iam mactaturæ.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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et tangunt magnas tristia fata deas, flebilis indignos, Elegea, solue capillos!
Elegy on the Death of Tibullus Ovid 1912
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