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Corpore parvus eram, cubito vix altior uno, Sed tamen in parvo corpore magnus eram.
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Tiberius, and Haman by Ahasuerus: I resolve with Gregory, potestas culminis, est tempestas mentis; et quo dignitas altior, casus gravior, honour is a tempest, the higher they are elevated, the more grievously depressed.
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In medio autem templi est locus altior 14. gradibus, qui et ipse columnis vndíque est stipatus: et secundum quatuor mundi plagas habet templum quatuor introitus per portas Cypressinas artificiosè compositas, nobiliterque sculptas, et excisas.
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Martyrum constructa, vbi interdum veniunt Monachi cantare missam: Hic mons est satis altior
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Martyrum constructa, vbi interdum veniunt Monachi cantare missam: Hic mons est satis altior
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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In medio autem templi est locus altior 14. gradibus, qui et ipse columnis vnd韖ue est stipatus: et secundum quatuor mundi plagas habet templum quatuor introitus per portas Cypressinas artificios� compositas, nobiliterque sculptas, et excisas.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Superlative by adding - issimus (- a, - um), to the Stem of the Positive deprived of its final vowel; as, -- altus, _high_, altior, _higher_, altissimus, _highest_,
New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett
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Pallas and Diana in the Sicilian mountains -- altior ac nulla comitum certante, prius quam palluit et viso pulsus decor omnis Averno (v. 346).
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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But St. Thomas strenuously denies that it is specialis potentia ratione altior (a special faculty higher than reason).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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Hebe nec longa uirginitate foret. sed tuus altus amor barathro fuit altior illo, 75
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