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Extortus non cruciatur, ambustus non laeditur, prostratus in lucta, non vincitur; non fit captivus ab hoste venundatus.
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Cytisus prostratus and _C. spinescens_ are each recorded to have a ciliate form.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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_Cytisus prostratus_ has a variety _ciliata_, and _Solanum Dulcamara_, or the bitter-sweet, has a variety called _tomentosum_.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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CLIANTHUS (Dampieri) herbaceus prostratus sericeovillosissimus, foliolis oppositis (rarissime alternis) oblongis passim lineari-oblongis obovatisve, pedunculis erectis scapiformibus, floribus subumbellatis, calycibus 5-fidis sinubus acutis, ovariis (leguminibusque immaturis) sericeis.
Expedition into Central Australia Charles Sturt 1832
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"_Vivum quidem, haud diu est, hominem videbam -- vigere autem quis dicat qui sub fulminibus eloquentiae tuae, rex magne, jamdudum pronus jacet, et prostratus? _"
The Fortunes of Nigel Walter Scott 1801
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Ad prima statim verba minantis inimici maximus fratrum numerus fidem suam prodidit: nec prostratus est persecutionis impetu, sed voluntario lapsu seipsum prostravit.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Ad prima statim verba minantis inimici maximus fratrum numerus fidem suam prodidit: nec prostratus est persecutionis impetu, sed voluntario lapsu seipsum prostravit.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Knowing all this, Lord Glenvarloch, though a courtier of only five minutes’ standing, had address enough to reply — “Vivum quidem, haud diu est, hominem videbam — vigere autem quis dicat qui sub fulminibus eloquentiae tuae, rex magne, jamdudum pronus jacet, et prostratus?”
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