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Eleusinian emblem of MORTAL LIFE, that is, the lethum, or death, mentioned by Virgil amongst the terrible things exhibited at the beginning of the mysteries.
The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation Erasmus Darwin 1766
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+ In the speech of Vulteius in Lucan, animating his soldiers in a great struggle to kill one another. — “Decernite lethum, et metus omnis abest, cupias quodcunque necesse est.”
Letter to a Friend 2007
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How many myriads besides in all ages might I remember, qui sibi lethum Insontes pepperere manu, &c.
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* [591] Sunt aliquid manes: lethum non omnia finit,
A Dissertation on Divine Justice 1616-1683 1967
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-- "Decernite lethum, et metus omnis abest, cupias quodcunque necesse est."
Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend 1643
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Pul - monicis igitur vix porrigenda funt, nifi puris in - undatio pulmones obruat, et lethum a fufFocante materia, alias inevitabile, adfuturum fit;
A Complete Collection of the Medical and Philosophical Works of John Fothergill 1781
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Fumantefque artus, laniataque corpora lethum Corripit informe« et rotat ater in aethere turbo.
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Quam reor invidia tali tunc elfe repertum j Ut lethum inddiis qui gellit primusy obiret:
T. Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex Titus Lucretius Carus , Thomas Creech , George Gordon Byron Byron 1770
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It is the saying of a certain author, that punishment is coeval with injustice, and that the horror of natural conscience is not terminated by the limits of human life: — “Sunt aliquid manes: lethum non omnia finit,
A Dissertation on Divine Justice 1616-1683 1967
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Nequaquam lethum cernis Francifce, nefanduni Non Mors, vera Tibi Fha IfabelJa fuit.
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