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  • Ministri locupletiores iis quibus ministratur, servus majores opes habens quam patronus.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • In defuncti locum eum jussit subrogari, qui inter majores virtute reliquis praeiret; non fuit apud mortales ullum excellentius certamen, aut cujus victoria magis esset expetenda, non enim inter celeres, celerrimo, non inter robustos robustissimo,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Formae majestatem Barbari verentur, nec alii majores quam quos eximia forma natura donata est, Herod, lib.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • This great authority being indivisible, and inseparably annexed to the sovereignty, there is little ground for the opinion of them that say of sovereign kings, though they be singulis majores, of greater power than every one of their subjects, yet they be universis minores, of less power than them all together.

    Leviathan 2007

  • The next is called May, from Maia, the mother of Mercury, to whom it is sacred; then June follows, so called from Juno; some, however, derive them from the two ages, old and young, majores being their name for older, and juniores for younger men.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • Et fuit, in tempore quo coibant pecudes, levavi oculos meos, et vidi in somnio, et ecce hirci majores ascendebant super capras variegatas, punctis parvis respersas, et maculis latis respersas.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

  • Et dixit, Leva nunc oculos tuos, et vide omnes hircos majores ascendentes super capras lineis distinctas, punctis parvis respersas, et maculis latis respersas: vidi enim omnia, quae Laban facit tibi.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

  • Interim vero (Viri nostrâ authoritate adhuc majores) juxta prædictæ Reipublicæ jmagin [= e] choragos, seu adjutores desidero, qui n [= o] tantum ludis præponantur, sed et liberalitate pro op [= u] ratione in Reipublicæ impensas vtentes, ex ære publico præmia partim proponant, partim de suo insumant, hoc nomine quod illor [= u] sint præfecti.

    Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries William Francis Dawson

  • Operae pretium est, [78] quum domos atque villas cognoveris in urbium modum exaedificatas, visere templa deorum, quae nostri majores, religiosissimi mortales, fecere.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • Nam postquam Tiberius et G. G.acchus, quorum majores Punico atque aliis bellis multum rei publicae addiderant, vindicare plebem in libertatem et paucorum scelera patefacere coepere, nobilitas noxia atque eo perculsa, modo per socios ac nomen Latinum, interdum per equites

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

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