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  • Cicero, in Pro Rege Deiotaro, records that Julius Caesar "expressed a desire to vomit after dinner" vomere post cenam te velle dixisses, and says that the dictator took emetics for this purpose.

    Archive 2008-04-01 FIDO The Dog 2008

  • Theogine's horse in Heliodorus [4846] curvet, prance, and go so proudly, exultans alacriter et superbiens, &c., but that such as mine author supposeth, he was in love with his master? dixisses ipsum equum pulchrum intelligere pulchram domini fomam?

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • [594] 'Illum jura potius ponere quam de jure respondere dixisses; eique appropinquabant clientes tanquam judici potius quam advocato.'

    Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • Lunæ versus Boream, nigricans quædam macula conspecta fuit, obscurior cætero toto corpore, quod candentis ferri figuram repræsentabat; dixisses nubila in multam regionem extensa pluviis & tempestuosis imbribus gravida, cujusmodi ab excelsorum montium jugis in humiliora convallium loca videre non rarò contingit.

    The Discovery of a World in the Moone Or, A Discovrse Tending To Prove That 'Tis Probable There May Be Another Habitable World In That Planet John Wilkins 1643

  • Qiiem til non tani cito rhetorcm dixisses, (etsi non deerat oratio) quani, ut Graci dicunt, ncXhixov.

    Memoirs of the political and private life of James Caulfield, Earl of Charlemont Hardy, Francis, 1751-1812 1812

  • Yet the remark of Montfaucon (Diario Italico) "æra Dodonæa dixisses", alluding to the brass kettles of the oracle (Potter Arch. Graec.

    The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome Charles Michael Baggs

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