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Note 5: RHF, 18: 728B: "effosso sepulcro propriis manibus, corpus extraxit defuncti foetens admodum et putridum, magnum naribus offendiculum, utpote quod jam per menses aliquot ibi jacuerat tumulatione, et ab ipsa camera usque ad coemeterium Montis-Autrici, nudis pedibus, solis indutus lineis ut plebeius quilibet, ad tumulandum ibidem propriis humeris deportavit, sese humlians salubriter coram Deo". back
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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In another place we have among the saint's suitors "plebeius pauperrimus, qui in ea habitabat regione quæ Stagni litoribus Aporici est contermina."
The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton
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We are told, too, of the saint being at a plebeian feast, and of a plebeius in the island of Raghery quarrelling with his wife.
The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton
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No professor, so far as I know, has ever deigned to give the same sober attention to the sermo plebeius of his country that his colleagues habitually give to the pronunciation of Latin, or to the irregular verbs in French.
Chapter 1. Introductory. 1. The Diverging Streams of English Henry Louis 1921
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Stet quicumque uolet potens aulae culmine lubrico: me dulcis saturet quies; 55 obscuro positus loco leni perfruar otio, nullis notaque litibus aetas per tacitum fluat. sic cum transierint mei60 nullo cum strepitu dies, plebeius moriar senex. illi mors grauis incubat qui, notus nimis omnibus, ignotus moritur sibi.
The Lot of Kings 1912
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But the conversation of many of the characters is in the _plebeius sermo, _ the actual speech of the lower orders, of which so little survives in literature.
Latin Literature 1902
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And on the basis of the similarity in DNA sequence and the finding that the two genes appear near others in the B. plebeius genome that appear to come from marine bacteria, the researchers concluded that the genes had been transferred from a marine bacterium to microbes living in the human gut.
Scientific American 2010
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The team searched databases for related enzymes and found that they are all also made by marine microbes - except one found in the genome of a human gut bacterium called Bacteroides plebeius.
Scientific American 2010
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Here the saint blesses the store of a "homo plebeius cum uxore et filiis" -- a poor man with a wife and family -- a term expressively known in this day among all who have to deal with the condition of their fellow-men, from the chancellor of the exchequer to the relieving-officer.
The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton
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Yet they could find no evidence that the microbe, Bacteroides plebeius, had ever been identified in the microbiota, or community of microorganisms, in the guts of people in North America. nutrition, and what energy we take up from our nutrition is shaped by gut microbiota, "said study co-author Mirjam Czjzek, a group leader in the marine plants and biomolecules department at the French National Center for Scientific Research.
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