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The project of the Natural Questions is to “take measure of God” (1.17), to “walk through the universe” (mundum circuire; 3.1), to celebrate the works of the gods (3.5), and to free us from fear induced by natural events
Seneca Vogt, Katja 2007
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Minerva mirabilis nationes hominum circuire videtur ....
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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_lustrare_, whose primitive meaning is "to purify," came at last to be synonymous with _circuire_, to walk round anything; and hence a purification and a circumambulation were often expressed by the same word.
The Symbolism of Freemasonry Albert G. Mackey
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