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  • Michaelis Ephesii in libros De partibus animalium, De animalium motione, De animalium incessu commentaria, Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca 22.2, Berlin: Reimer.

    Byzantine Philosophy Ierodiakonou, Katerina 2008

  • She was not like Blanche; for Blanche had bright complexion, and a fine neck, and a noble bust, et vera incessu patuit Dea — a true goddess, that is, as far as the eye went.

    Framley Parsonage 2004

  • The woman shook her head slightly in admiration, then added, in Latin, “Vera incessu patuit dea.”

    Moon Dance Mariah Stewart 1999

  • The woman shook her head slightly in admiration, then added, in Latin, “Vera incessu patuit dea.”

    Moon Dance Mariah Stewart 1999

  • My Hour then becomes a goddess walking through my life, and, as the poet says, _et vera incessu patuit dea_.

    Reveries of a Schoolmaster Francis B. Pearson

  • Straight up to my mother she walked, -- a poor word to describe her sweet and stately motion, _et vera incessu patuit dea_, as the master has it, -- curtsied low and nobly to her and said, "Mistress Wheatman, I am a stranger in distress, and should have been in danger but for your son, who has served me and saved me as only a brave and courteous gentleman could."

    The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

  • The man she had left looked after her, as she trod with her long, light step beside the young man, and murmured, "_Et vera incessu patuit dea. _"

    The Bent Twig Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918

  • The four characters of the Prologue were still engaged in bewailing their hopeless dilemma when Venus herself, vera incessu patuit dea, appeared before them, wearing a splendid robe emblazoned with the ship of the city of Paris.

    IV. Master Jacques Coppenole. Book I 1917

  • HOSPES, quod deico paullum est, asta ac pellage. haic est sepulcrum hau pulcrum pulcrai feminae: nomen parentes nominarunt Cladiam. suom mareitum corde deilexit souo: gnatos duos creauit: horunc alterum5 in terra linquit, alium sub terra locat. sermone lepido, tum autem incessu commodo. domum seruait. lanam fecit.dixi. abei.

    Epitaph of Claudia Anonymous 1912

  • _Vera incessu patuit -- Corona_; walked, too, without airs or _minauderies_, unconscious of all but the solemn glory.

    Brother Copas Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

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