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Feras mentes domat cupido, that fierce, cruel and rude Cyclops Polyphemus sighed, and shed many a salt tear for Galatea's sake.
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Inter bas tantas voluptatum illecebras etiam ferreas mentes libido domat.
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[6393] Haec enim (religio) si falsa sit, dummodo vera credatur, animorum ferociam domat, libidines coercet, subditos principi obsequentes efficit.
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Provided always, and be it understood (as they say in acts of Parliament), that quae te cumque domat Venus, non erubescendis adurit ignibus.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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I take it for granted, that qua to cumque domat Venus, non erubescendis adurit ignibus.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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* [1110] Corda domat, qui cuncta videt, quem cuncta tremiscunt;
Christologia 1616-1683 1965
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Peliacis axis pondere Hectoreo tremens. tunc obruta atque eversa quodcumque accidit torpens malis rigeusque sine sensu fero. iam erepta Danais coniugem sequerer meum, nisi hic teneret: hic meos animos domat morique prohibet; cogit hic aliquid deos adhuc rogare -- tempus aerumnae addidit.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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* Espete nun moi, Mousai, Olumpia domat echousai: [159] 1
Hymns of the Eastern Church 1818-1866 1866
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* Neque enim Satanam modo et peccatum et mortem totosque inferos prostravit, sed ex rebellibus quotidie facit sibi obsequentem populum, quum verbo suo carnis nostrae lasciviam domat; rursus hostes suos, h.e. impios omnes quasi ferreis catenis continet constrictos, dum illorum furorem cohibet sua virtute, ne plus valeant, quam illis concedit.
A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians 1797-1878 1860
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Calvin, therefore, unites both representations: Neque enim Satanam modo et peccatum et mortem totosque inferos prostravit, sed ex rebellibus quotidie facit sibi obsequentem populum, quum verbo suo carnis nostrae lasciviam domat; rursus hostes suos, h.e. impios omnes quasi ferreis catenis continet constrictos, dum illorum furorem cohibet sua virtute, ne plus valeant, quam illis concedit.
A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians 1797-1878 1860
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