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  • Fact鷐que est vt vaticinium regis Edward� Gr鎐is omnibus comprobatum, qui se a patribus accepisse iurarent, super dextrum illos latus quiescere: sed post introitum Anglorum in speluncam, veritatem peregrin� propheti� contubernalibus suis pr鎑icarunt.

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

  • The Shepheardes Calender and the Defence on vaticinium.

    Defence of Poesie 1992

  • Among the Romans a poet was called _vates_, which is as much as a diviner, fore-seer, or prophet, as by his conjoined words _vaticinium_ and _vaticinari_ is manifest: so heavenly a title did that excellent people bestow upon this heart-ravishing knowledge.

    English literary criticism Various

  • Among the Romans a poet was called vates, which is as much as a diviner, foreseer, or prophet, as by his conjoined words, vaticinium and vaticinari, is manifest; so heavenly a title did that excellent people bestow upon this heart-ravishing knowledge.

    The Defense of Poesy 1909

  • Factúmque est vt vaticinium regis Edwardì Græcis omnibus comprobatum, qui se a patribus accepisse iurarent, super dextrum illos latus quiescere: sed post introitum Anglorum in speluncam, veritatem peregrinæ prophetiæ contubernalibus suis prædicarunt.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584

  • Hi igitur hoc Bileami vaticinium de bellis Alexandri M. cum Aflfyriis ebrumque fucceflforibus Medis et Perfis expiicant.

    Pentateuchus ex recensione textus hebraei et versionum antiquarum latine versus notisque philologicis [microform] Dathe, Johann August, 1731-1791, ed 1791

  • Quum vero comm. 17, non edat vaticiniura quid perpefluri fint Moabitae; fed hifl; oriara narrct quid in ipforum confiniis accideritj quumque comra. i8 - vaticinium contineac de Edomitarum ultimo illo tempore fatis: • reliquum eft, vatem, nifi fi eum. promifli oblitumefle velis, comm.

    historico- philologico theologica nicolao barkey 1768

  • Since the chapter purports to set forth a prophecy, and criticism does not believe very much in prophecy, we are assured that this must be a prophecy after the event, vaticinium post eventum, and therefore a later account which is cast into the form of a prophecy, as though Biblical writers were not above the use of such morally doubtful devices, and as though the message of the passage were just as valuable whether it be a true, straightforward prophecy or a pious fraud.

    Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942

  • 'vaticinium,' an oracle or prophecy; for tradition says that Numa chose the Vatican hill as a sacred place from which to declare to the people the messages he received from the gods.

    Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome 1881

  • Ac qvistatn iners eft, qvi inde inferre velit iftius P/almi vaticinium rum imple - tuniy ad tempora (èqventium perfèqvutionum (Neronianae, Decia - nai, Antichriftianas &c.) trahi non debere.

    Lux in tenebris, hoc est prophetiæ donum quô Deus Ecclesiam Evangelicam, in regno Bohemiæ ... Christoph Kotter , Krystyna Poniatowska 1657

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