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  • “Shább” (Lat. juvenis) between puberty and forty or according to some fifty; when the patient becomes a “Rajul ikhtiyár” (man of free will) politely termed, and then a

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Quem ego depereo juvenis mihi pulcherimus videtur; sed forsan amore percita de amore non recte judico.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Si sit juvenis, et non vult obedire, flagelletur frequenter et fortiter, dum incipiat foetere.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • For this reason the word nahgar is always found marked because its gender was originally common, and it had the same meaning as the Latin juvenis

    Theologico-Political Treatise 2007

  • Cephalus egregiae formae juvenis ab aurora raptus quod ejus amore capta esset.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Paul does not write quite so good Latin as Seneca: “I received your letters yesterday,” says he, “with joy.” — “Litteras tuas hilaris accepi.” — “And I would have answered them immediately had I had the presence of the young man whom I would have sent with them.” — “Si præsentiam juvenis habuissem.”

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Si juvenis forte indigenorum coetum quendam in castris manentem adveniat ubi quaevis sit puella innupta, mos est; nocte veniente et cubantibus omnibus, illam ex loco exsurgere et juvenem accedentem cum illo per noctem manere unde in sedem propriam ante diem redit.

    An account of the manners and customs of the Aborigines and the state of their relations with Europeans, by Edward John Eyre 2004

  • Bradwardine disposed to regard Edward as puer (or rather juvenis) bonae spei et magnae indolis, a youth devoid of that petulant volatility which is impatient of, or vilipends, the conversation and advice of his seniors, from which he predicted great things of his future success and deportment in life.

    Waverley 2004

  • Re confecta surgit juvenis et [Arabic] “Gloria Deo” intonans, ad tentoria tendit, statim nefando oppressus dolore humi procumbit.

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

  • [3140] The Latin text of this clause is, "Quia autem triginta annorum aetas prima indolis est juvenis" -- words which it seems almost impossible to translate.

    ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

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