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Gradiuum, nostri comites, arcete parumper, 195 ut soli uacet aula mihi. procul igneus horror thoracum, gladiosque tegat uagina minacis. stent bellatrices aquilae saeuique dracones; fas sit castra meis hodie succumbere signis. tibia pro lituis et pro clangore tubarum200 molle lyrae festumque canant. epulentur ad ipsas excubias; mediis spirent crateres in armis. laxet terribilis maiestas regia fastus et sociam plebem non indignata potestas confundat turbae proceres. soluantur habenis205 gaudia nec leges pudeat ridere seueras.
The Marriage of Honorius and Maria Claudian 1912
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Sed · tunc · externus · ut · Anco · Marcio · Priscus · Tarquinius · propter · temeratum · sanguinem · quod · Patre · Demaratho · Corinthio · natus · erat · et · Tarquiniensi · Matre · generoso · sed · inopi · ut · quæ · tali · marito · necesse · habuerit · succumbere · cum · domi · repelleretur.
A Year's Journey through France and Part of Spain, Volume II (of 2) Philip Thicknesse 1755
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That were, as Seneca saith, "Fortunae succumbere, quod tristius est omni fato:" "To fall under Fortune, of all other the most miserable destiny."
Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations Edmund Spenser 1730
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_Hæreticorum vocabulo continentur, & latis adversus eos sanctionibus debent succumbere, qui vel levi argumento à judicio Catholicæ religionis & tramite detecti fuerint deviare: ideoque experientia tua Euresium hæreticum esse cognoscat.
Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John Isaac Newton 1684
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ipsa multa tuli non leuiora fuga. indignata malis mens est succumbere, seque
His Autobiography Ovid 1912
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