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  • Cur non in illo Lipar� tumulo, ampla & profunda voragine hiante, teste Aristotele, ad quem non tut� noctu accedatur: ex quo Cymbalorum sonitus, crotalorum boatus, cum insolitis & inconditis cachinnis exaudiantur?

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Cur non in illo Liparæ tumulo, ampla & profunda voragine hiante, teste Aristotele, ad quem non tutò noctu accedatur: ex quo Cymbalorum sonitus, crotalorum boatus, cum insolitis & inconditis cachinnis exaudiantur?

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • * [569] Marmoreo tumulo Licinus jacet, at Cato parvo,

    A Dissertation on Divine Justice 1616-1683 1967

  • Compounds of _specere_ (the simple verb is used by Plautus and Ennius) are peculiarly liable to confusion: _prospicere_ is similarly corrupted to _aspicere_ in some manuscripts at _Met_ III 603-4 'ipse quid aura mihi tumulo promittat ab alto/_prospicio_' and _Met_ XI 715-16 'notata locis reminiscitur acta fretumque/_prospicit_', and other instances of variation of prefix will be found at _Met_ II 405, VI 343, XI 150, XIV

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • As Don Carlos died on July 24, 1568, the Cancion a la muerte de don Carlos and the Epitafio al tumulo del principe don Carlos must necessarily have been composed after that date; that is, when Luis de Leon was just forty and had left his ninez far behind him.

    Fray Luis de Leon Fitzmaurice-Kelly, James 1921

  • LANDE ET ALANUS DE MACULANIS, Dissert.hist. de tumulo S. Marcellinae virg. sororis S. Ambrosii in eiusdem imperiali basilica humanae

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

  • Upon whose tombs these verses following were written: Hic jacent in Duno qui tumulo tumulantur in uno, Brigida, Patricius atque Columba plus, which is for to say in English: In Duno these three be buried all in one sepulchre:

    The Golden Legend, vol. 3 1230-1298 1900

  • [40] Ib. 869, _Tam mendax Magni tumulo quam Creta Tonantis_.

    The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879

  • One anonymous writer has maintained, that if the Catstane was a monument to the grandfather of Hengist and Horsa, the inscription upon it should not have read 'In hoc tumulo jacet Vetta f (ilius) Victi,' but, on the contrary, 'Victus filius Vettæ.'

    Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 James Young Simpson 1840

  • Vt fuit in thalamo, sic erit in tumulo_. to be engraved upon the tomb of the Seneschal, might well have "moved the bile" of the pious Benedictine Pommeraye, and have excited the taunting of Ducarel, when they thought upon her subsequent connexion, in the character of mistress, with Henry the Second of France.

    A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811

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