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  • Confestim hinc inde sagittae volitant, bipennes librant, gladios vibrant, alterutro certant, et veluti carnifices boves in macello, sic inconsternate ad invicem se trucidant.

    The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

  • Atque interim aues regionis rapaces, et immundæ, vt corui, vultures, et aquilæ, quæ pro consuetudine optimè morem norunt, aduolant magno numero in aere: Tuncque Relligiosi cum sacerdotibus detruncant corpus in frusta velut in macello, proijcientes pecias in altum auibus, ac decantantes certam ad hoc compositam orationem, tanquam si nostri sacerdotes cantarent.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Atque interim aues regionis rapaces, et immund�, vt corui, vultures, et aquil�, qu� pro consuetudine optim� morem norunt, aduolant magno numero in aere: Tuncque Relligiosi cum sacerdotibus detruncant corpus in frusta velut in macello, proijcientes pecias in altum auibus, ac decantantes certam ad hoc compositam orationem, tanquam si nostri sacerdotes cantarent.

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

  • Catherine de 'Medici charged Cardinal Santa Croce to assure Pope Pius V. "that she and her son had nothing more at heart than to get the admiral and all his confidants together some day and make a massacre (_un macello_) of them; but the matter," she said, "was so difficult that there was no possibility of promising to do it at one time more than at another."

    A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 1830

  • Confestim hinc inde sagittae volitant, bipennes librant, gladios vibrant, alterutro certant, et veluti carnifices boves in macello, sic inconsternate ad invicem se trucidant.

    The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day Walter Scott 1801

  • 108 Nec coquos vero habebant in servitiis eosque ex macello conducebant.

    A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885

  • Item: Omne, quod in macello venditur, edite, nihil interrogantes propter conscientiam (1 Cor. x.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • D.mino Cuolo) ** "'finAl Viti la macello Martyrum D.amflOi dinali CaraffanuncupatOi inregnoFruch sato a laterci per D. Paidun PapamlVa uc.

    Bibliotheca historica. A.I.G. Meuselio ita digesta ut pæne novum opus videri possit 1794

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