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  • What a vast variety of different ideas does the word triumphus hold together, and deliver to us as one species!

    An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 2007

  • Also another Latin word, triumphus, is already suspected by etymologists to be an Etruscan loan (presumably via *triampe), amazingly parallel to my suggestion of tupi tōphus ~ tōfus (Adams, Bilingualism and the Latin language (2003), pp.163-4).

    The etymology of Latin tofus 'tufa' isn't written in stone 2009

  • 'Aspice me, cui parva domi fortuna relictast, nullus et antiquo Marte triumphus avi.'

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • Dictātor creātus est, et eī triumphus ā senātū est dēcrētus.

    Latin for Beginners Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge 1900

  • Pestis quae superat cuncta, triumphus eris [erit].

    Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • II Metelli ... et triumphus fuit clarissimus et meritum ex virtute ei cognomen Numidici inditum.

    A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885

  • They were strains of joy and exultation, attended with grand processions: and from the same term, dithyrambus, was derived the θριαμβος of the Greeks, and the triumphus of the Romans.

    A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. Jacob Bryant 1759

  • Nothing of the rebels†™ entry into Havana, in early 1959, with Che at their head and Batista, the cowardly tyrant, already fled; “Che, Part One, †teasingly, is a triumphus interruptus, halting just short of this spasm of joy.

    Babalú Blog: an island on the net without a bearded dictator 2009

  • Druso C.efare, C. Norbano C.nfulibus, decemitur Germanico triumphus, manente bello; quod quamquam in seftatem fumma ope parabat, initio veris, & repentino in C.ttos excurfu, prse - cepit: nam fpes inceiferat diflidere hoftem in Arminium ac Segeftem, infignem utrumque per - fidia in nos, aut fide.

    C. Cornelii Taciti opera omnia Cornelius Tacitus , Henry Homer , Melchior Freinsheim 1790

  • Iltyrico cemfinis» Vndt DaUnad* cus triumphus II, I, idi, emtm Poitio Procos. fkbsHis Partkhot, gente Iltyridos, egit % s. l/.

    Q. Horatii Flacci eclogae: cum scholiis veteribus Horace, William Baxter, Johann Matthias Gesner, Johann Carl Zeune 1788

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