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There exist in this world a range of sublunary spirits that carminibus coelo possunt deducere lunam, and they have been divided since ancient times into six kinds: fiery, aerial, terrestrial, watery, subterranean, and the whole class of fairies and nymphs.

Excerpt: The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue 2006

Note 51: Richeri, p. 301: "Asserebant quidem dicti incantatores, quod tales pastores, quia simpliciores esse creduntur, arte sua ita deludere volebant et ad transmarinas partes ipsos deducere conabantur et populis illius terre ipsos pastores venumdare moliebantur sicut in superioribus de pueris huic pagine adnotavimus." back

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

Media quod noctis ab hora sedisti qua nemo faber, qua nemo sedebat, qui docet obliquo lanam deducere ferro: rara tamen merces.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

We are only now to speak in brief of these sublunary spirits or devils: for the rest, our divines determine that the devil had no power over stars, or heavens; [1175] Carminibus coelo possunt deducere lunam, & C., (by their charms (verses) they can seduce the moon from the heavens).

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

[310] The preposition _de_ in this compound adds to the idea of the simple verb _ducere_, that of the place to which a person is led, and in which he is to remain; hence it is frequently used in the expression _domum deducere_, 'to take' or 'lead a person home.'

C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

Iam ego coeperam ephebum in gymnasium deducere, ego studia eius ordinare, ego docere ac praecipere, ne quis praedator corporis admitteretur in domum ....

The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

At the opposite pole to the preceding, the deductive method starts from very general principles, from higher causes, to descend (Lat. deducere, to lead down) to more and more complex relations and to facts.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

Pierius uotum iuuenis cupit. hanc ego formae egregium mirata decus cui gloria patrum et generis certabat honos, tellure cadentem excepi fouique sinu; nec colla genasque110 comere nec pingui crinem deducere amomo cessauit mea, nate, manus. mihi dulcis imago prosiluit. celsae procul aspice frontis honores suggestumque comae.

The Marriage of Stella and Violentilla 1912

Cf "carmina uel caelo possunt deducere lunam," Virg.

The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

Si per te licet, imperatur [451] nuncio Holderum ad me deducere.

Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887