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  • In a celebrated passage from his speech he said that he was filled with foreboding: "Like the Roman, I seem to see 'the River Tiber foaming with much blood'", by which he intended Virgil and the passage in the Aenid, "Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno".

    John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

  • In a celebrated passage from his speech he said that he was filled with foreboding: "Like the Roman, I seem to see 'the River Tiber foaming with much blood'", by which he intended Virgil and the passage in the Aenid, "Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno".

    Enoch 2009

  • [135] Cum relego scripsisse pudet, quia plurima cerno

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • In like manner the Latins by peccatum, which is sin, signify all manner of deviation from the law; but by crimen (which word they derive from cerno, which signifies to perceive) they mean only such sins as may be made appear before a judge, and therefore are not mere intentions.

    Leviathan 2007

  • If the text is unsound, however, alteration of _certae_ to _certant_ (Damsté) or _cerno_ (Owen) is not the cure.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Regiam urbem ingressus est, miransque, En, inquit, cerno quod saepe incredulus audiebam, famam videlicet tantae urbis.

    History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 Edward Gibbon 1765

  • In like manner the Latins by peccatum, which is sin, signify all manner of deviation from the law; but by crimen (which word they derive from cerno, which signifies to perceive) they mean only such sins as may be made appear before a judge, and therefore are not mere intentions.

    Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill 1651

  • E-mail (required - never shown publicly) cerno: Strange.

    Kottu 2009

  • Plus it pulls the wool over the first world and keeps that glorious aid money ... cerno: I have agree with Naz.

    Kottu 2009

  • Plus it pulls the wool over the first world and keeps that glorious aid money ... cerno: I have agree with Naz.

    Kottu 2009

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