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  • [6503] Porrum et caepe deos imponere nubibus ausi,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Barones sui, et multi alij nobiles cum sua gente maxima, quorum nullus audet loqui nisi a domino licentia petatur exceptis fatuis et histrionibus, qui suum dominum consolari habent; Illi etiam nihil audent facere, nisi secundum quod Dominus voluerit eis legem imponere.

    The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

  • Know ye what it is, manus imponere in servos Domini?

    Ivanhoe 2004

  • Et sicut dictum est suprà de Tartaris, debent acies suas ordinare, ac legem pugnantibus imponere.

    The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004

  • Et sciatis me quandoque in tempore opportuno ab eis interrogasse de his signis, qui responderunt quòd inclinare caput Domino ad illius horæ momentum, foret confirmatio omnibus diebus vitæ suæ, ad obediendum ipsi et fidelitatem obseruandam imperio, nec posse corrumpi promissionibus siue donis, quódque digitum in auricula imponere, obturatio est auditus contra omnia

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Et sciatis me quandoque in tempore opportuno ab eis interrogasse de his signis, qui responderunt qu騞 inclinare caput Domino ad illius hor� momentum, foret confirmatio omnibus diebus vit� su�, ad obediendum ipsi et fidelitatem obseruandam imperio, nec posse corrumpi promissionibus siue donis, qu骴que digitum in auricula imponere, obturatio est auditus contra omnia

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

  • Et sicut dictum est supr� de Tartaris, debent acies suas ordinare, ac legem pugnantibus imponere.

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

  • 'Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento: hae tibi erunt artes, pacisque imponere morem, parcere subiectis et debellare superbos.'

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • "Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento; hae tibi erunt artes; pacisque imponere morem parcere subiectis, et debellare superbos."

    A Handbook for Latin Clubs Susan Paxson

  • Ego verò considerans quamplures episcopos maturiores ac prouectiores prudentia & ætate vix tantæ administrationi sufficere, nec sine periculo animarum suarum sui officium pontificatus ad perfectum explere, veritus sum onus importabile senioribus mihi imponere iuniori: faciens hæc nō ex leuitate animi, sed ob reuerentiam sacramenti.

    Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second Raphael Holinshed

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