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Alias acies fortiorum hominum longe mittunt � dextras et � sinistris, vt non videantur ab aduersarijs suis: et sic circumdant aduersarios et colligunt in medium, et pugnare incipiunt ex omni parte.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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But the jussive _petatur_ could be continuing from _ite_ in the first line; compare Statius _Sil_ IV iv 4-5 'atque ubi Romuleas uelox penetraueris arces,/continuo dextras flaui _pete_ Thybridis oras'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Tacitus (_Hist. _ i. ll.) calls it absolutely _dextras_, right hands.
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Monetarios enim fere omnes totius Angliee fecit ementulari, et manus dextras abscindi, quia monetam furtive corruperant. '
Memoir Correspondence And Miscellanies Jefferson, Thomas 1829
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Moretarios enim fere omnes totius Angliae fecit ementulari, et manus dextras abscindi, quia monetam furtive corruperant.
Autobiography 1821
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Monetarios enim fere omnes totius Angliee fecit ementulari, et manus dextras abscindi, quia monetam furtive corruperant. '
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 Thomas Jefferson 1784
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Monetarios enim fere omnes totius Angliae fecit ementulari, et manus dextras abscindi, quia monetam furtive corruperant.
Public Papers 1775
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St vincis, quanta 6 snecedoot prsamia dextras Sin victns, falsas apes jace, pone anlrnam*
The lay of the last minstrel, a poem. With Ballads and lyrical pieces Walter Scott 1812
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EwEDoctES CfldunxeA KUTOTELEs, dextras mundi foliduuH glaciei in modum ab partes & aunt quaead ortum. iBne.«tJ«sre«jiiM»aaHm, quod funt, unde motui iiiitium: fi -. jgnitam afrfanwp«r natnsiin niftras, quz ad occafum. „, utroque globi femifle con -
Plutarchi Chaeronensis Moralia, id est opera, exceptis vitis, reliqua: Plutarchi Chaeronensis ... 1797
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Obftupuit fimul ipfe, fimul percuiTus Achatea Laetiti&que metuque: avidi conjungere dextras Ardebant; fed res animos incognita turbat.
P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796
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