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  • Hic locus est multùm artificiosè operatus marmore, et generosè depictus auro et argento, variòque colore, cui propè ad tres passus est præsepe in quo reclinabatur natus Dominus, ibíque videtur puteus quidam, in quo aliqui putare volunt cecidisse stellam ductricem trium Magorum, post eius peractum officium.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Habetur et alius puteus aut fons intra illa montana, quem plerique similiter fontem

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And there is the welle, of the whiche Holy Writt spekethe offe, and seythe, Fons ortorum, et puteus aquarum viventium: that is to seye, The welle of gardyns, and the dyche of lyvynge watres.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And there is the welle, of the whiche Holy Writt spekethe offe, and seythe, _Fons ortorum, et puteus aquarum viventium_: that is to seye, _The welle of gardyns, and the dyche of lyvynge watres.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Habetur et alius puteus aut fons intra illa montana, quem plerique similiter fontem

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Hic locus est mult鵰 artificios� operatus marmore, et generos� depictus auro et argento, vari騫ue colore, cui prop� ad tres passus est pr鎠epe in quo reclinabatur natus Dominus, ib韖ue videtur puteus quidam, in quo aliqui putare volunt cecidisse stellam ductricem trium Magorum, post eius peractum officium.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Et vidit, et ecce puteus erat in agro, ecce quoque ibi tres greges pecudum, qui cubabant juxta illum: qua e puteo ipso potum dabant gregibus, et lapis magnus erat super os putei.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

  • Yes, there was; he built a _puteus in atrio_; (a well in the court).

    Ghost Stories of an Antiquary 1899

  • Callicrate, amore mei et timore regine affecto, nos per magicam abduxit per vias horribiles ubi est puteus ille profundus, cujus juxta aditum jacebat senioris philosophi cadaver, et advenientibus monstravit flammam Vite erectam, instar columne voluntantis, voces emittentem quasi tonitrus: tunc per ignem impetu nocivo expers transiit et jam ipsa sese formosior visa est.

    She Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • This is the puteus inexhaustus; here are the provisions made for the place of torment, here is laid in the fuel for the everlasting burnings; one bottomless pit emptying and discharging itself into the other.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV. 1634-1716 1823

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