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Cp. also _Phaedra_ 707, where Hippolytus 'words,' en impudicum crine contorto caput | laeva reflexi, 'can only be justified as inserted to explain to the hearers what they could not see.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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Pacuvius; and Lucilius speaks of a word "contorto aliquo ex Pacuviano exordio."
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879
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Et fane quae nobis appellantur Torcie da vento, e fu - ne contorto & pice faturato con - ficiuntur.
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Persino 207, un sofisticato androide, viene sopraffatto dalla confusione e dalla frustrazione mentre cerca la strada nel contorto intrico di corridoi dalle mura bianche, senza alcuna idea del destino che lo attende appena girato l’angolo.
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MS.); glabriuscula, petiolis phyllodineis lineari-subteretibus, foliolis nullis, racemis phyllodio plerumque brevioribus 1-2-floris, legumine plano glabro cincinnato v. spiraliter contorto.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia Thomas Mitchell 1823
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