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Possibly the verb "ambulo" may be intended to signify in this case either "to walk" or "to stand," in contradistinction to sitting.
The Captiva and the Mostellaria Titus Maccius Plautus 1847
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Abraham, si tu nunc secundas viam meam, per quam ego ambulo:
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996
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Homo inter homines sum, capite aperto ambulo; assem aerarium nemini debeo; constitutum habui nunquam; nemo mihi in foro dixit 'redde, quod debes.'
The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature Frank Frost Abbott 1892
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Those who have dealt with the subject most fully make a fourfold division, identical with that which is made in the case of barbarisms: solecisms are brought about by addition, for instance in phrases such as nam enim, de susum, in Alexandriam; by omission, in phrases such as ambulo viam, Aegypto venio, or ne hoc fecit: and by transposition as in quoque ego, enim hoc voluit, autem non habuit.
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