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  • [4400] Montaltus paeony seed, unicorn's horn; os de corde cervi, &c.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • The Gauls were caught on the cervi, impaled on the stimuli, and fell in heaps under the bolts and balls which were poured from the walls.

    Caesar: a Sketch James Anthony Froude 1856

  • There is no occasion to describe the rows of ditches, dry and wet; the staked pitfalls; the cervi, pronged instruments like the branching horns of a stag; the stimuli, barbed spikes treacherously concealed to impale the unwary and hold him fast when caught, with which the ground was sown in irregular rows; the vallus and the lorica, and all the varied contrivances of Roman engineering genius.

    Caesar: a Sketch James Anthony Froude 1856

  • These animals are much larger than others of the genus cervi, and their flesh is of a superior flavor.

    ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE 1841

  • Est bos cervi figura cujus a media fronte inter aures unum cornu existit, excelsius magisque directum

    History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 Edward Gibbon 1765

  • Are you sure that these ingrediants, namely: human placenta (Placenta hominis), deer antler (Corna cervi pantotrichum) and donkey skin (Colla cori astini), will be a source of infection?

    THE MEDICAL NEWS Nick 2010

  • The product patient information leaflet lists human placenta (Placenta hominis), deer antler (Corna cervi pantotrichum) and donkey skin

    THE MEDICAL NEWS Nick 2010

  • Est bos cervi figura cujus a media fronte inter aures unum cornu existit, excelsius magisque directum (divaricatum, qu?) his quae nobis nota sunt cornibus.

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • Atque canum? quid quse inbelles dant proelia cervi Sdlicet? ante omnis furor eft iniignis equarum;

    P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796

  • Nempe» abruptifl turbata prooellis, tatcscftienisireta; quem fuper ingeDS at ooeli, et fcopuUs inlila reclamaut nec odiieii poflunt revocare parentef 9 itoiE fnper crudeli funerc virgo, cet Bacchi variae» et genus acre luporum» aum? quid» quse inbcUes dant proelia cervi ante ooonis fiiror eft infignis equarum j m Venua ipia dedit, quo tempore Glauci

    P. Virgilii Maronis opera: emendabat et notulis illustr. G. Wakefield Virgil, Publius Vergilius Maro 1796

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