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  • Asiaticus accepted that option, lamenting that his demise should come as a result of fraus muliebris womanly trickery.

    Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

  • Person and Saint-worship had virtually dethroned the Deity; whilst Mariolatry had made the faith a religio muliebris, and superstition had drawn from its horrid fecundity an incredible number of heresies and monstrous absurdities.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • * Certe fraenum viris et muliebris non laxavit, ut in vagas libidines ruierent, absque delectu et pudore: sed a sancto castoque conjugio incipiens, descendit ad generationem: [932] 1

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

  • -- Ed. [96] "Certe fraenum viris et muliebris non laxavit, ut in vagas libidines ruierent, absque delectu et pudore: sed a sancto castoque conjugio incipiens, descendit ad generationem."

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

  • For the opposite reasoning, see Sen _Cons Marc_ 1 1 'Nisi te, Marcia, scirem tam longe ab infirmitate muliebris animi quam a ceteris uitiis recessisse et mores tuos uelut aliquod antiquum exemplar aspici, non auderem obuiam ire dolori tuo'.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • You must know that words like charm and enchantment will not do: the thought is of beauty as of something that can be physically kept and lost and by physical things only, like keys; then the things must come from the mundus muliebris; and thirdly they must not be markedly oldfashioned.

    Notes 1918

  • The Romans never had the idea that between the mundus muliebris (woman's world) and that of men they must raise walls, dig ditches, put up barricades, either material or moral.

    The Women of the Caesars Ferrero, Guglielmo, 1871-1942 1911

  • The Romans never had the idea that between the _mundus muliebris_ (woman's world) and that of men they must raise walls, dig ditches, put up barricades, either material or moral.

    The Women of the Caesars Guglielmo Ferrero 1906

  • Ulrichs explained the matter by saying that in sexual inverts a male body coexists with a female soul: _anima muliebris in corpore virile inclusa_.

    Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion Havelock Ellis 1899

  • He regarded uranism, or homosexual love, as a congenital abnormality by which a female soul had become united with a male body -- _anima muliebris in corpore virili inclusa_ -- and his theoretical speculations have formed the starting point for many similar speculations.

    Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion Havelock Ellis 1899

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