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Omnes voces, auras, omnes susurros captat zelotypus, et amplificat apud se cum iniquissima de singulis calumnia.
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Aquila non captat muscas, as you taught the boys at
Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004
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Sequan at the dilucul and crepuscul; we deambulate by the compites and quadrives of the urb; we despumate the Latial verbocination; and, like verisimilary amorabons, we captat the benevolence of the omnijugal, omniform and omnigenal feminine sex.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Sequan at the dilucul and crepuscul; we deambulate by the compites and quadrives of the urb; we despumate the Latial verbocination; and, like verisimilary amorabons, we captat the benevolence of the omnijugal, omniform and omnigenal feminine sex.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Aquila non captat muscas, as you taught the boys at Stonnington.
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Aquila non captat muscas -- The eagle does not dart upon flies.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther) 1721
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Dum captat, capitur; vorat inscius, ipse vorandus;
Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II Henry Vaughan 1658
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"Transvolat in medio posita, et fugientia captat."
The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 11 Michel de Montaigne 1562
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"Transvolat in medio posita, et fugientia captat."
The Essays of Montaigne — Complete Michel de Montaigne 1562
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The scholar answered, We transfretate the Sequan at the dilucul and crepuscul; we deambulate by the compites and quadrives of the urb; we despumate the Latial verbocination; and, like verisimilary amorabons, we captat the benevolence of the omnijugal, omniform and omnigenal feminine sex.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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