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Interim Sulla, quem primum hostes attigerant, cohortatus suos, turmatim et quam maxime confertis equis ipse aliique Mauros invadunt, [560] ceteri in loco manentes ab jaculis eminus emissis corpora tegere et, si qui in manus venerant, obtruncare.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Ubi quisque legatus aut tribunus curabat, eo acerrime niti, [319] neque alius in alio magis quam in sese [320] spem habere: pariterque oppidani agere; oppugnare aut parare omnibus locis, avidius alteri alteros sauciare quam semet tegere, clamor permixtus hortatione, laetitia, gemitu, item strepitus armorum ad coelum ferri, tela utrimque volare.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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At Romani domi militiaeque intenti festinare, parare, alius alium hortari, hostibus obviam ire, libertatem, patriam parentesque armis tegere.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Rogo vos etiam pro periculo men, per illum Dominum quem occulta non fallunt, desinite vulneratam tegere conscientiam.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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Cardan writes on in meditative strain: "Coeterum cum non ignorem maculatos fuisse codices B. Hieronimi, atque aliorum patrum nostrorum, ab his qui aliter sentiebant, erroremque suum auctoritate viri tegere voluerunt: ut ne quis in nostris operibus hallucinetur vel ab aliis decipiatur, sciant omnes me nullibi Theologum agere, nec velle in alienam messem falcem ponere."
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"Utii tangere sarcire tegere devehere defigere mandare ferro oeti promovere referre _fasque esto_" (_liceat_ should probably be inserted before _fasque esto_).
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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And this word is rendered by the Latin verb _tegere_, to _cover_ or _roof over_.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850
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Sedulum esse, nihil temere loqui, assuescere labori, et imagine prudentiae et modistiae tegere angustiores partes captus, dum exercitationem ac usum, quo isti in civilibus rebus pollent, pro natura et magnitudine ingenii plerique accipiunt.
Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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Male facta male factis tegere ne perpluant -- One evil deed is covered with another, so that there is no passage through them.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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It is a rule in the devil's politics Male facta male factis tegere, ne perpluant -- To cover sin with sin, in order to escape detection.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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