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Sed, num hæc et similia exempla quempiam eò insaniæ adigent, vt dicat hanc vel illam nationem, liberos in escam propriam mactare * consuettisse, Turcis libenter vendere, aut aquis submergere et suffocare solitam esse?
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Sed, num h鎐 et similia exempla quempiam e� insani� adigent, vt dicat hanc vel illam nationem, liberos in escam propriam mactare * consuettisse, Turcis libenter vendere, aut aquis submergere et suffocare solitam esse?
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The verb _mactare_ acquired a general sense of sacrificial slaying, as did also _immolare_, though neither had originally any direct reference to slaughter.
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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Sed, num hæc et similia exempla quempiam eò insaniæ adigent, vt dicat hanc vel illam nationem, liberos in escam propriam mactare * consuettisse, Turcis libenter vendere, aut aquis submergere et suffocare solitam esse?
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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(vi. 37 foll.): non hoc ista sibi tempus spectacula poscit; nunc grege de intacto septem mactare iuvencos praestiterit, etc.
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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