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  • Just as “running” (currens) can be resolved into “he who runs” (is qui currit), so “being” (ens) can be resolved into “that which is” (id quod est).

    Lorenzo Valla Nauta, Lodi 2009

  • This time, ˜currens™ (˜running™) supposits differently in the two premises, materially in the first and personally in the second, explaining why putting the two truths together fallaciously leads to the false conclusion.

    Medieval Theories: Properties of Terms Read, Stephen 2006

  • Hic venit currens per deserta Indiæ Maioris, hincque per meatus subterraneos transit plures terras: exiens sub Monte Aloth, inter Indiam et Aethiopiam, et Mauritaniam intra deserta Aegypti, irrigans totam longitudinem

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Oportet vt peregrinus in finibus Hungariæ transeat magnum Danubij flumen, et vadat in Belgradum; Hoc flumen oritur inter Montana Almaniæ, et currens versus Orientem, recipit in se 40. flumina antequam finiatur in mare.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Oportet vt peregrinus in finibus Hungari� transeat magnum Danubij flumen, et vadat in Belgradum; Hoc flumen oritur inter Montana Almani�, et currens versus Orientem, recipit in se 40. flumina antequam finiatur in mare.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Hic venit currens per deserta Indi� Maioris, hincque per meatus subterraneos transit plures terras: exiens sub Monte Aloth, inter Indiam et Aethiopiam, et Mauritaniam intra deserta Aegypti, irrigans totam longitudinem

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • But whosoever knoweth any form, knoweth the utmost possibility of superinducing that nature upon any variety of matter; and so is less restrained in operation, either to the basis of the matter, or the condition of the efficient; which kind of knowledge Solomon likewise, though in a more divine sense, elegantly describeth: non arctabuntur gressus tui, et currens non habebis offendiculum.

    The Advancement of Learning 2003

  • 'Ast ego, Dardaniae quamvis sub collibus Albae rus proprium magnique ducis mihi munere currens unda domi curas mulcere aestusque levare sufficerent.'

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • Numquam hercle hodie exorabis nam iam calcari quadrupedo agitabo advorsum clivom, postidea ad pistores dabo, ut ibi cruciere currens. asta ut descendam nunciam in proclivi, quamquam nequam es.

    Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

  • _St. _ 326 ff., as Pinacium, the _servus currens_, finally succeeds in

    The Dramatic Values in Plautus Wilton Wallace Blanck�� 1916

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