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_Atr_. scio quid queraris: scelere praerepto doles, nec quod nefandas hauseris angit dapes; quod non pararis: fuerat hic animus tibi instruere similes inscio fratri cibos et adiuvante liberos matre aggredi similique leto sternere -- hoc unum obstitit:
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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In the battle that ensued, the Apostle St. James, Patron of the Spaniards, was seen fighting, mounted on a white charger - "Es visus in Praelio, equoque et ense acerrimus, mauros furentes sternere" as the Spanish
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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Parthus, cum simulat fugas, 45 admotis nihil est opus urbis sternere machinis, longe saxa rotantibus. mens regnum bona possidet. rex est qui metuet nihil, 50 rex est qui cupiet nihil: hoc regnum sibi quisque dat.
The Lot of Kings 1912
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Agapen facere et intus manducare, vel accubitus sternere.
The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) George Gillespie 1630
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(_lectus_, a couch, _sternere_, to spread), to implore the favor of offended deities.
The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic Arthur Gilman
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sternere uel dura posse super silice; saepe trucem aduerso perlabi sidere pontum,
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