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"violentus," and "acer;" viz., the bull-like roaring of its waters, and the blind fury of its course, especially in flood time.
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Id quum mulieribus accidat, praecipue in brutis pecudibus locum habet, ubi nulla viget ratio, sed violentus libidinis impetus grassatur:
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996
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Id quum mulieribus accidat, praecipue in brutis pecudibus locum habet, ubi nulla viget ratio, sed violentus libidinis impetus grassatur.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996
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A few adjectives of the First and Second Declensions form the Positive in - iter; as, -- fīrmus, fīrmiter, _firmly_; hūmānus, hūmāniter, _humanly_; largus, largiter, _copiously_; alius, aliter, _otherwise_.a. violentus has violenter.
New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett
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_Calvus diu cum Cicerone iniquissimam litem de principatu eloquentiæ habuit; et usque eò violentus accusator et concitatus fuit, ut in media actione ejus surgeret Vatinius reus, et exclamaret, Rogo vos, judices, si iste disertus est, ideo me damnari oportet?
A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Caius Cornelius Tacitus
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Adorate purè .... ne violentus viderer interpres, et Jud locum darem. —
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Illic excitatis primùm aquis, quas sine tumultu leni alveo duxerat, violentus et toriens per malignos transitus prosilit, dissimilis sibi — tandemque eluctatus obstantia, in vastam altitudinem subito destitutus cadit, cum ingenti circumjacentium regionum strepitu; quem perferre gens ibi à Persis collocata non potuit, obtusis assiduo fragore auribus, et ob hoc sedibus ad quietiora translatis.
The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) Charles Rollin 1701
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Uquis omnibus indoflus effe volo: quis tyrannus ita violentus, qui cogere audeat, & invitum arte fua uti ahjuem vclitfi Haec enim talia fupplicationibus & precibus, non legibus
Luciani Samosatensis Opera Graece et Latine: : ad editionem Tiberii ... Lucian, Llucià (, Luciano de Samosata , Samosatenus Lucianus , Tiberius Hemsterhuis , Johann Frederik Reitz , Societas Bipontina , Io Fred Reitzius , Iac Nic Belin de Ballu, Societas Bipontina, Typographia Bipontina ( 1790
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Alterhprum motuum eft naturalis, violentus alter, uter -
T. Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex Creech, Thomas, 1659-1700. ed 1770
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4, 6-8, 'Calvus, qui diu cum Cicerone iniquissimam litem de principatu eloquentiae habuit, usque eo violentus actor et concitatus fuit, ut in media eius actione surgeret
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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