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Splendidior vitro, tenero lascivior haedo, &c. Mollior et cygni plumis, et lacte coacto.
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Sane candorem animi per cygni effigiem antiquitùs prædicabant, nec insulsè igitur corporis.
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Iliacae: pandit nitidos domus alta penatis, 145 claraque gaudentes plauserunt limina cygni.
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What worked before will not work again, this is a new world and that means assessing it at every stage, and being able to respond to the changes seen. cygni
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Stipes Iaei'is crassitie pennae cygni supra et suhtus canaliculatus, inde tetragonus.
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humanae sollers imitator psittace linguae, quis tua tam subito praeclusit murmura fato? hesternas, miserande, dapes moriturus inisti nobiscum, et gratae carpentem munera mensae5 errantemque toris mediae plus tempore noctis uidimus. affatus etiam meditataque uerba reddideras. at nunc aeterna silentia Lethes ille canorus habes. cedat Phaethontia uulgi fabula: non soli celebrant sua funera cygni.
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"Tunc allati sunt in pompatica gloria duo cygni, vel olores, ante regem, &c. &c., -- vindicaturus." [
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"Mater", "Maris stella", "Planctus cygni", etc. Several titles are evidently formed on the principle of analogy; from the beginning of the sequences "Lyra pulchra regem" (Anal. hymn.,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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