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  • This word was used by Sheriff as seen in the quotation given, and it was obviously designed to convey the same idea as the word "lecta" in the quotation from Virgil.

    Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891

  • Immolavit lecta pecora ter mille Delphis, una cum lectis phialis tribus.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Scripturis lecta, nec a quoquam ecclesiasticorum veterum usurpata sunt, compulsi sumus creberrimae exhortationi fratrum cedere, quaeque sit nostra de eo opinio etiam Scripturarum testimoniis comprobare; ne imperitia tanti dogmatis, hi qui contraria opponunt decipiant eos qui sine discussione sollicita in adversariorum sententiam statim pertrahuntur.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • How applicable is the description of the Roman historian to the Rome of our day: -- "Caput orbis terrarum, urbis magnificentiam augebant fora, templa, porticas, aquæductus, theatra, horti denique, et ejus generis alia, ad quæ vel lecta animus stupet."

    Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume II. (of 2) John M'lean

  • III v 9-10 '_quae quamquam_ lingua mihi sunt properante per horas/lecta satis multas, pauca fuisse queror' and _EP_ III viii 23-24 '_quae quamquam_ misisse pudet ... tu tamen haec quaeso consule missa boni'.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Dalburgius lecta, illius Monachi insectatione, dissuasit editionem & actionem, quod eodem tempore

    Notes and Queries, Number 06, December 8, 1849 Various

  • 'Cum sis iam noto fabula libro et tua sit toto Cynthia lecta foro.'

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • Billae; Prima, For the Confirmation of the Queen's Majesty's Letters Patents, granted to Walter Raughlieghe, Esquire, touching the Discovery and Inhabiting of certain Foreign Lands and Countries, quae ia vice lecta est. '

    Thomas Hariot Stevens, Henry, 1819-1886 1885

  • The original document of the X. (July 23, 1456) runs thus: "Si videtur vobis per ea quæ dicta et lecta sunt, quod _procedatur_ contra Ser Jacobum Foscari;" and it is argued

    The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

  • "Opera omnia in unum col - lecta," Venice, - 1533, fol.

    The general biographical dictionary. Revised by A. Chalmers 1812

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