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  • Fraudes hominum et ingeniorum capturae, officinas invenere istas, in quibus sua cuique venalis promittitur vita; statim compositiones et mixturae inexplicabiles ex Arabia et India, ulceri parvo medicina a rubro mari importatur.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Non peculatus aerarii factus est, neque per vim sociis ereptae pecuniae, quae quamquam gravia sunt, tamen consuetudine jam pro nihilo habentur: hosti acerrimo prodita senatus auctoritas, proditum imperium vestrum, domi militiaeque res publica venalis fuit.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • But Herod had a good purse, and having also well experienced Jugurtha's observation of Rome, that it was urbs venalis, knew how to open it for his advantage as well as any man living: which, together with his great courage and resolution, lifted him up to, and settled him in a royal throne, so much above the pitch of any thing that by his birth he could pretend to.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII. 1634-1716 1823

  • '_Vale, venalis civitas, mox peritura, si emptorem invenias_,' was the prophetic curse of Jugurtha upon Rome, in the days of her deep corruption.

    Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams. Josiah Quincy 1818

  • Quinflilianeis, in quibus & Ju - venalis vitam perfequitur.

    A. Persii Flacci et Dec. Jun. Juvenalis satirae: Ad optimas editiones ... Persius, Juvenal , Sulpicia, C . Lucilius, Gaius Lucilius, Johann August Ernesti, Societas Bipontina, Johann Albert Fabricius 1785

  • Varr. 1684, etiam J. Graevii notis aufta, quas uti textum J.venalis & veterum fchoiiorum ex Schreveliana receafione re* petitum ivit i68j Henr.

    A. Persii Flacci et Dec. Jun. Juvenalis satirae: Ad optimas editiones ... Persius, Juvenal , Sulpicia, C . Lucilius, Gaius Lucilius, Johann August Ernesti, Societas Bipontina, Johann Albert Fabricius 1785

  • Ijiucnityr iacerdum Vlyfipone venalis hic lapis alJa atquealia formajcjucm tametfi miigno admodam zCuinet mercatores, ea con -

    Aromatum et simplicium aliquot medicamentorum apud Indos nascentium historia Garcia de Orta 1579

  • (αρτηρια φλεβωδης {artêria phlebôdês}, _arteria venalis_ of mediaeval writers, the pulmonary vein of our nomenclature), to the left ventricle.

    The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield Various

  • Bibliography and the duties of a Bibliographer "which is worth consulting: but I know of nothing which better describes, in few words, such a character, than the following:" In eo sit multijuga materiarum librorumque notitia, ut saltem potiores eligat et inquirat: fida et sedula apud exteras gentes procuratio, ut eos arcessat; summa patientia ut rarè venalis expectet: peculium semper præsens et paratum, ne, si quando occurrunt, emendi occasio intercidat; prudens denique auri argentique contemptus, ut pecuniis sponte careat quæ in bibliothecam formandam et nutriendam sunt insumendæ.

    Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811

  • Mingled with the inspired air in the arteria venalis, freed by respiration from fuliginous matter, and become a suitable home of the vital spirit, it is attracted at length into the left ventricle of the heart by the diastole of the organ. "

    Fathers of Biology Charles McRae

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