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Et si forsan super contractu euismodi contentio oriatur fiat inde probatio aut inquisitio secundum vsus
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Et fuit contentio inter pastores pecudum Abram, et pastores pecudum
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Et dixit Abram ad Lot, Ne nunc sit contentio inter me et to, et inter pastores meos et pastores tuos: quia viri fratres sumus.
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Numidarum gessit; primum quia magnum et atrox variaque victoria fuit, dein quia tunc primum superbiae nobilitatis obviam itum est; quae contentio divina et humana cuncta permiscuit eoque vecordiae processit, uti studiis civilibus bellum atque vastitas Italiae finem faceret.
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Bretenorio, quod tempore istius Guidonis, quando aliquis vir nobilis et honorabilis applicabat ad terram, magna contentio erat inter multos nobiles de Bretenorio, in cujus domum ille talis forensis deberet declinare.
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In hujus oratione sermo Latinus erat, verba non abjecta, res compositæ diligenter; nullus flos tamen, neque lumen ullum: animi magna, vocis parva contentio; omnia ferè ut similiter, atque uno modo dicerentur.
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Et: Cum sit in vobis aemulatio et contentio, an non carnales estis?
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"Leisure," says Cicero, is not "contentio animi sed relaxatio"; and in a charming passage he goes on to describe
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Page 248, l. 12. _contentio_, etc.: not a straining of the mind, but a relaxation.
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[Footnote 583: 'In necessitate siquidem penuriae pretii nulla contentio est: dum patitur quis induci ne possit aliquâ tarditate percelli.'] 'To stop this practice we send to you the present messengers, whose business it is to examine all the stores of corn collected for public distribution [584] or otherwise, to leave to each family sufficient for its needs, and to purchase the remainder from the owners at a fair market price.
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