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  • Audistis quia dictum est: "Diliges proximum tuum et odio habebis inimicum tuum".

    Archive 2008-01-20 papabear 2008

  • This desire of change is like the breach of the first of God's Commandments: for there God says, Non habebis Deos alienos: "Thou shalt not have the Gods of other nations"; and in another place concerning kings, that they are gods.

    Leviathan 2007

  • That they should not obey nor honour the gods of other nations, in these words, Non habebis deos alienos coram me; that is, "Thou shalt not have for gods, the gods that other nations worship, but only me": whereby they were forbidden to obey or honour as their king and governor any other God than Him that spake unto them by Moses, and afterwards by the high priest.

    Leviathan 2007

  • Habet haec ciuitas consuetudinem, quod quando vnus vult facere conuiuium amicis suis, ad hoc sunt hospitia deputata, et vbi ille circuit per hospites, dicens sibi tales amicos meos habebis, quos festabis nomine meo, et tantum in festo volo expendere, et per illum modum meliùs conuiuant amici in pluribus hospitijs quam facerent in vno.

    The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

  • But whosoever knoweth any form, knoweth the utmost possibility of superinducing that nature upon any variety of matter; and so is less restrained in operation, either to the basis of the matter, or the condition of the efficient; which kind of knowledge Solomon likewise, though in a more divine sense, elegantly describeth: non arctabuntur gressus tui, et currens non habebis offendiculum.

    The Advancement of Learning 2003

  • Many weights of lead and marble were found here; one with the inscription, "Eme et habebis" (Buy and you shall have), also scales.

    Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

  • Ain tu? dubium habebis etiam, sancte quom ego iurem tibi? postremo, Hegio, si parva iuri iurandost fides, vise ad portum.

    Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

  • We might also quote the beautiful extra fortunam est quidquid donatur amicis: quas dederis solas semper habebis opes (v. 42).

    Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

  • Cymothoen facilem, quae nunc detrectat, habebis. hac mercede ueni.

    The Marriage of Honorius and Maria Claudian 1912

  • Mandatum primum est [Non habebis Deos alios coram me].

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

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