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  • The Missa ‘Quem dicunt homines’, based on a motet by Richafort, may have been written in competition with a similar mass by Mouton when they were in the French royal chapel.

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  • In his De vulgari eloquentia he wrote in Latin: "nam alii oc, alii si, alii vero dicunt oil" ("some say òc, others say sì, others say oïl"), thereby highlighting three major Romance literary languages which were well known in Italy, based on each language's word for "yes", the òc language (Occitan), the oïl language (French), and the sì language (Italian).

    Metropolis movie poster and clip in German mj 2009

  • In his De vulgari eloquentia he wrote in Latin: "nam alii oc, alii si, alii vero dicunt oil" ("some say òc, others say sì, others say oïl"), thereby highlighting three major Romance literary languages which were well known in Italy, based on each language's word for "yes", the òc language (Occitan), the oïl language (French), and the sì language (Italian).

    When "yes" and "no" become complex mj 2009

  • His most famous composition, Missa ‘Quem dicunt homines’, was printed by Giunta in Missarum decem … liber primus 1522, almost certainly a reprint of a lost Petrucci book of 1515.

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  • His duos attracted the attention of later musicians; three movements from his Missa ‘Quem dicunt homines’, two from his Magnificat secundi toni and the ‘Pleni’ of the Missa super ‘Si dedero’ (the last with the contrafact text Semper eris pauper) were printed in didactic collections of two-voice pieces such as Il primo libro a due voci (Venice, 1543) and Diphona amoena et florida (Nuremberg, 1549).

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  • From this sentence Pagels takes only the words communes et ecclesiasticos ipsi dicunt, omitting the larger context.

    The Gnostic shuffle ... Frank Wilson 2006

  • Cerastes serpens dictus eo quod in capite cornua habet similia arietum, cerusta Greci cornua dicunt.

    Sigh. WMAM. 2008

  • Cerastes serpens dictus eo quod in capite cornua habet similia arietum, cerusta Greci cornua dicunt.

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  • Hi enim ad multitudinem propter eos qui sunt ab Ecclesia, quos communes et ecclesiasticos ipsi dicunt, inferunt sermones, per quos capiunt simpliciores et illiciunt eos, simulantes nostrum tractatum, uti saepius audiant.

    The Gnostic shuffle ... Frank Wilson 2006

  • Patria (saith Hippocrates) ob risum furere et insanire dicunt, his countrymen hold him mad because he laughs; [447] and therefore he desires him to advise all his friends at Rhodes, that they do not laugh too much, or be over sad.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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