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  • Cumque alij longam quadragesim� inediam recentibus cibis compensantes, acriter comederent, ille a terrenis reuocato animo, diuinum quiddam speculatus, mentes conuiuantium permouit ampliorem perfusus in risum: nulloque causam l鎡iti� perquirere pr鎠umente, tunc quidem ita tacitum donec edendi satietas obsonijs finem imposuit.

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

  • Cumque alij longam quadragesimæ inediam recentibus cibis compensantes, acriter comederent, ille a terrenis reuocato animo, diuinum quiddam speculatus, mentes conuiuantium permouit ampliorem perfusus in risum: nulloque causam lætitiæ perquirere præsumente, tunc quidem ita tacitum donec edendi satietas obsonijs finem imposuit.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584

  • Etymology: Latin speculatus, past participle of speculari to spy out, examine, from specula lookout post, from specere to look, look at - more at spy

    Larval Subjects . 2009

  • ‘heus’, inquit speculatus Amor, ‘non uestra sub imis furta tegi potuere uadis. accingere nostram145 uecturus dominam: pretium non uile laboris

    The Marriage of Honorius and Maria Claudian 1912

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