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Compare _Met_ VI 252-53 'quod [_sc_ ferrum] simul eductum est, pars et pulmonis _in hamis_/eruta cumque anima cruor est effusus in auras', where Bömer cites among other passages Curtius IX 5 23 'corpore ... nudato animaduertunt _hamos inesse telo_ nec aliter id sine pernicie corporis extrahi posse quam ut secando uulnus augerent' and Prop II xii 9 'et merito _hamatis_ manus est armata sagittis'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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And SENECA, whilst he quotes Theophrastus, adds ironically, that now we must go to fish with a _hatchet_ instead of a hook; "non cum hamis, sed cum dolabra ire piscatum."
Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836
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ChitO - theca maculis contexta acl modum loiicarum, quae Alberiona dicuntur, hamis confertarum.
Glossarium manuale ad scriptores mediae et infimae Latinitatis Charles Du Fresne Du Cange 1778
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And SENECA, whilst he quotes Theophrastus, adds ironically, that now we must go to fish with a _hatchet_ instead of a hook; "non cum hamis, sed cum dolabra ire piscatum." [
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836
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56 HUNGR VA.A.VIl C.p.A. C. Qx (o) i horundf hamis allt ac kne,
Hungurvaka: sive, Historia primorum quinqve Skalholtensium in Islandia ... 1778
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