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  • At multum mihi profuit, inquit peregrinus, carpum amento extrahens, e quo pependit acinaces: Loculo manum inseruit; et magna cum urbanitate, pilei parte anteriore tacta manu sinistra, ut extendit dextram, militi florinum dedit et processit.

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

  • At multum mihi profuit, inquit peregrinus, carpum amento extrahens, e quo pependit acinaces: Loculo manum inseruit; et magna cum urbanitate, pilei parte anteriore tacta manu sinistra, ut extendit dextram, militi florinum dedit et processit.

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

  • The verb διηγκυλοῦσθαι is rightly interpreted by Hesychius τὸ ἐνεῖραι τοῦς δακτύλους τῇ ἀγκύλη (h.e. amento) τοὺ ἀκοντίου.

    The First Four Books of Xenophon's Anabasis 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1844

  • Sacramento-Senator Bob Huff (R - Diamond Bar) today released the following statement after voting to support Assembly Bill 1844, Chelsea´s Law, in the Senate Public Safety Committee.

    California Chronicle 2010

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