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What a vast variety of different ideas does the word triumphus hold together, and deliver to us as one species!
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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
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'Aspice me, cui parva domi fortuna relictast, nullus et antiquo Marte triumphus avi.'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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Dictātor creātus est, et eī triumphus ā senātū est dēcrētus.
Latin for Beginners Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge 1900
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Pestis quae superat cuncta, triumphus eris [erit].
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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