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  • Later the Latin word fatum was to be con - nected with the verb fari.

    FORTUNE, FATE, AND CHANCE VINCENZO CIOFFARI 1968

  • It is, however, in the interpretation of the word fatum and the role played by the gods [4] that the test of Vergil's philosophy is usually applied.

    Vergil Frank, Tenney, 1876-1939 1922

  • Ultimately Jonathan concluded that if we are to live life in harmony with the universe, we must all possess a powerful faith in what the ancients used to call "fatum", what we currently refer to as destiny.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Liz 2009

  • Duc me O Jupiter et tu fatum, [3762] &c. Lead me, O God, whither thou wilt, I am ready to follow; command, I will obey.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • So did the inhabitants of the island of Choa, because their air was pure and good, and the people generally long lived, antevertebant fatum suum, priusquam manci forent, aut imbecillitas accederet, papavere vel cicuta, with poppy or hemlock they prevented death.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • The very word for 'fate' in Latin is fatum, which literally means 'that which is said' linguistically fatum is the neuter form of the passive perfect participle of the defective verb *for, 'to speak, to say'.

    nomen omen Horace Jeffery Hodges 2005

  • De quarta Hyberni� Insula, qu� in lacu qu騞am satis vasto fluitet: cuius gramina, quibusuis morbis pr鎠sentissimum remedium existant: Insula ver� ripam lacus statis temporibus accedat, idque vt plurimum, diebus Dominicis, vt tum quiuis facil� eam veluti nauim quandam, ingrediatur: id quod tamen pluribus simul, per fatum licere negat.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Hic cum domi suæ, à 100. viris coniuratis ob cædem à filio ipsius, ipso tamen inscio, patratam cingeretur, et inimicis domum vndique igni succendentibus, sibi videret supremum fatum instare, ait tandem.

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • De quarta Hyberniæ Insula, quæ in lacu quòdam satis vasto fluitet: cuius gramina, quibusuis morbis præssentissimum remedium existant: Insula verò ripam lacus statis temporibus accedat, idque vt plurimum, diebus Dominicis, vt tum quiuis facilè eam veluti nauim quandam, ingrediatur: id quod tamen pluribus simul, per fatum licere negat.

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • Hic cum domi su�, � 100. viris coniuratis ob c鎑em � filio ipsius, ipso tamen inscio, patratam cingeretur, et inimicis domum vndique igni succendentibus, sibi videret supremum fatum instare, ait tandem.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

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