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Filia excedens annum 25. potest inscio patre nubere, licet indignus sit maritus, et eum cogere ad congrue dotandum.
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* Tamen humani juris et naturalis potestatis est unicuique quod putaverit colere, nec alii obest, aut prodest alterius religio: sed nec religionis est cogere religionem, quae sponte suscipi debeat, non vi; cum et hostiae ab animo libenti expostulentur: ita et si nos compuleritis ad sacrificandum, nihil praestabitis diis vestris, ab invitis enim sacrificia non desiderabunt.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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Carthage, to dissuade him from the persecution he intended: "Tamen humani juris et naturalis potestatis est unicuique quod putaverit colere, nec alii obest, aut prodest alterius religio: sed nec religionis est cogere religionem, quae sponte suscipi debeat, non vi; cum et hostiae ab animo libenti expostulentur: ita et si nos compuleritis ad sacrificandum, nihil praestabitis diis vestris, ab invitis enim sacrificia non desiderabunt."
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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Namque quum tute per mollitiem agas, exercitum supplicio cogere, [460] id est dominum, non imperatorem esse.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Interim, quae bello opus erant, prima habere; postulare legionibus supplementum, auxilia a populis et regibus sociisque arcessere, praeterea ex Latio fortissimum quemque, plerosque militiae, paucos fama cognitos accire, et ambiundo cogere [440] homines emeritis stipendiis secum proficisci.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Licite dimittitur uxor que virum suum cogere querit ad malum.
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[257] _Subigere_ here, as in many other passages of Sallust, has the meaning of _cogere, invitum impellere_ ( 'to force a person to something'), followed by an infinitive instead of a clause with _ut_.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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[440] _Ambiundo cogere_, 'to oblige a person by flattering words;' a very expressive phrase, signifying that kind of compulsion which is effected by flattery and intreaties.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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'_Utrique alteris freti, finitimos armis aut metu sub imperium cogere, nomen gloriamque sibi addidere_.'
Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official William Sleeman 1822
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Novi Testamenti locis, tum Pauli, tum Joannis, tum Lucae, tum Matthaei: quod non sit Religionis, eodem teste ad Scapulam in fine, cogere
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