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Exiturus fascia uxoris pectus alligabat, nec momento praeesentia ejus carere poterat, potumque non hauriebat nisi praegustatum labris ejus.
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A species that used to suffer under the name Arum summis labris degustantes mutos reddens became instead simply Arum maculatum.
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Suntque venena labris &c. Take heed of Cupid's tears, if cautious.
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They see but as prisoners through a grate, they covet and catch, but Tantalus a labris, &c.
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Among the spolia (reused stones) figuring in the blocking wall are several column drums, a console that almost certainly came from the partially collapsed Roman Baths, and a fragment of a relief representing a double ax or labris.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos - N-S Colonnaded Street Report 4 2003
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Left, conserving the blocking wall, which is built directly on the street pavement (here probably already a section repaired in Late Antiquity) Right, reused stone with a double ax or labris
Interactive Dig Sagalassos - N-S Colonnaded Street Report 4 2003
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Si brevis est debet primis labris sonare, quasi extremis labris, ut puta sic dices _obit_.
The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it Frances Ellen Lord
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Quando vis exprimere quia brevis est, primis labris sonat; quando exprimis longam, intra palatum sonat.
The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it Frances Ellen Lord
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U litteram quotiens enuntiamus, productis et coeuntibus labris efferemus ... quam nisi per ou conjunctam Graeci scribere ac pronuntiare non possunt.
The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it Frances Ellen Lord
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Itane oportet rem mandatam gerere amici sedulo, ut ipsus in gremio osculantem mulierem teneat sedens? nullo pacto res mandata potest agi, nisi identidem manus ferat ei ad papillas, labra a labris nusquam auferat?
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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