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These orders are preceded by "Oratio super eum qui capillos in sola fronte tondere vult" – which looks like
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Me quoque nunc similis stimulat furor edere uersu tempora, cum duris uersare ligonibus arua conueniat, cum ueliuolo dare carbasa ponto et cum uiticomo crinem tondere Lyaeo.
Prologue to the Aratea Avienus 1912
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Suetonius: Boni pastoris est tondere oves, non deglubere.
The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 Robert Herrick 1632
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Lacrymas fundit tem« pore vemali uti Betula alba: ideOqUe Djenfe Cer - minationis eam tondere non licet.
Caroli a Linné equit. aur. de stella polari archiatri regii med. et botan. profess. Upsal. Acad ... 1788
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; confulto fulmina 3,34,54 tondere manu violas 3f 13» 29.
Sex. Avrel. Propertivs varietate lectionis et perpetva adnotatione illvstratvs Propertius, Sextus 1777
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