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Tunc fecerunt flectere genua ter clerico et interpreti: à nobis non requisiuerunt.
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Tunc fecerunt flectere genua ter clerico et interpreti: � nobis non requisiuerunt.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Et genu flectere fecit camelos extra civitatem ad puteum aquae, tempore vespertino, tempore quo egrediuntur mulieres, quae hauriunt.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996
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Jugurtha, ubi armis virisque et pecunia spoliatus est, quum ipse ad imperandum Tisidium vocaretur, [331] rursus coepit flectere animum suum et ex mala conscientia digna [332] timere.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Type - ō, - ĕre, - sī, - sus. fīgō fīgere fīxī fīxus _fasten_ mergō mergere mersī mersus _sink_ spargō spargere sparsī sparsus _scatter_ flectō flectere flexī flexus _bend_ nectō nectere nexuī nexus _twine_
New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett
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To genuflect [Lat. genu flectere, geniculare (post-classic), to bend the knee; Gr. gonu klinein or kamptein] expresses:
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Asteris ante dapes, nocte Asteris, Asteris ortu, quantum non clamatus Hylas. iamque aspera coepit flectere corda libens et iam sibi dura uideri.
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Liuia diuorumque nurus gessere superbae. incusat spes aegra moras longique uidentur stare dies segnemque rotam non flectere Phoebe.
The Marriage of Honorius and Maria Claudian 1912
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Nemesium flectere conatur qui Valentiniano equarum multam ob aliquod delictum inflexerat.
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In the library; where I found Maffeus's de Historia Indica: Promontorium flectere, to double the Cape.
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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