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Mopsus, the official prophet of the expedition, falls into a trance and beholds a vision of the future (211): heu quaenam aspicio! nostris modo concitus ausis aequoreos vocat ecce deos Neptunus et ingens concilium. fremere et legem defendere cuncti hortantur. sic amplexu, sic pectora fratris,
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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Nam cernebat variis dæmones rugire cruciatibus, & ante sepulchra sanctorum ululare, homines more luporum vocibus latrare canum, fremere leonum, sibilare serpentum, mugire taurorum, alios rotare caput & post tergum terram vertice tangere, suspensisque pede fæminis vestes non defluere in faciem_.
Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John Isaac Newton 1684
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XIIL Sed Agrippina Ubertam amuhm, nurum anciOam, ailaque eumdem in modum muliebriter fremere.
C. Cornelii Taciti Opera Gabriel Brotier 1782
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562 Magistratus senatum vocare, populus in curiæ vestibulo fremere, ne tanta ex oculis manibusque amitteretur præda.
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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