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Septemtrione Africo pelago, ab Ortu sinu magnæ Syrtis, à Meridie montium perpetuis jugis; quibus à Libyæ desertis et Gætulis discernitur; ab Occasu Tusca amne.
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A Tusca amne usque ad Ampsagam fluvium litori Africo praetenditur Numidia, Masinissæ Regis nomine maxime clara, nunc
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Quod si nauim per fluuium Obam aduerso amne possit impellere, prima si poterit cataracta, eaque, vt verisimile est, commodissima, ad eumque locum appellere, quem aliquando ipse cum suis aliquot per Sibericorum regionem terra adijt, qui duodecim iuxta dierum itinere distat �
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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He was wrong in many things, but never about his feeL Briar Rose he found he had three aptitudes: for the theater, for political amne - sia, and for love.
Briar Rose Yolen, Jane 1991
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Scythiae qui, ut ait Gallus "uno tellures diuidit amne duas": Asiam enim ab Europa separat '.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Anguillos &c. &c. et qualescunque in amne natant salu = Eels &c. &c., and every sort whatever that in water swimmeth [wicker/sallow] basket!
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= A similar conjunction at _Tr_ III x 27-28 'ipse, papyrifero qui non angustior amne,/miscetur uasto multa per ora freto'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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AB INGENIO = is parallel to _per carmina_ in the preceding line; for the idiom, see at x 46 _ab amne_ (p 346).
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Luna parens mensum numerosa prole renascens: tu biiugos stellante polos ab Sole gubernas, te redeunte dies fraternus colligit horas; 5 te pater Oceanus renouato respicit amne, te spirant terrae, tu uinclis Tartara cingis; tu sistro resonas, Brimo, tu cymbala quassas;
To the Moon Claudius 1912
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Tagus amne vehit, fluit ignibus aurum; my gold fishes are almost molten.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3 Horace Walpole 1757
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