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Indeed the Roman name of the city, Lutetia, is said to be derived from the Latin lutum, “mud.”
Archive 2008-05-25 de Brantigny........................ 2008
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Indeed the Roman name of the city, Lutetia, is said to be derived from the Latin lutum, “mud.”
Drinking water in Paris during the 18th century de Brantigny........................ 2008
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Udum et molle lutum, a moist and soft clay, is easily seasoned and perverted.
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To this head belong the material and thickness of the vessels in which the bodies are placed on which we are going to operate; also the perfect stopping up of vessels by consolidation and lutum sapientiæ, as the chemists call it.
The New Organon 2005
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Saith he, “Aurum, quod pravis diaboli persuasionibus quasi lutum sterni potuerit, aurum ante Dei oculos nunquam fuit, qui enim seduci quandoque non reversuri possunt, quasi habitam sanctitatem ante oculos hominum videntur amittere, sed eam ante oculos Dei nunquam habuerunt.”
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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Yet even this fine outburst is surpassed by the deservedly well-known passage of the third satire, in which Persius appeals to a young man 'who has great possessions' to live earnestly and strenuously (23): udum et molle lutum es, nunc nunc properandus et acri fingendus sine fine rota. sed rure paterno est tibi far modicum, purum et sine labe salinum
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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Vdum et molle lutum est, nunc nunc properandus, et acri
Of the Institution and Education of Children. To the Ladie Diana of Foix, Countesse of Gurson. 1909
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Paulum dixisse in suis epistolis; Dicet etiam lutum figulo, quare facis unum vas ad honorem, et aliud vas ad contumeliam?
The Koran (Al-Qur'an) George Sale 1716
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Vdum et molle lutum est, nunc nunc properandus, et acri
Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian Various 1562
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Ferrum aeratimy acidi aerei exceffu fo - lutum,. aquis martialibus fubtilioribus ineft.
Torberni Bergman, ... sciagraphia regni mineralis: secundum principia proxima digesti Torbern Bergman 1783
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