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Terra ista est populosa valdè, et crescunt in ea species, et abundantia gingiberis, canella, gariofoli, nuces muscata, et mastix cum aromatibus multis.
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Nicholai venerantur, et sic procedendo per multa maritima loca veniet ad Insulam Sio vbi crescit gummi mastix lucidum: Inde ad
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Terra ista est populosa vald�, et crescunt in ea species, et abundantia gingiberis, canella, gariofoli, nuces muscata, et mastix cum aromatibus multis.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Nicholai venerantur, et sic procedendo per multa maritima loca veniet ad Insulam Sio vbi crescit gummi mastix lucidum: Inde ad
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Dekker, who wrote the greater part of _Satiro-mastix_.
A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892
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Thersites with Marston, who used the pseudonym 'Therio-mastix' in his
A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892
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Next year (1602), Dekker replied with spirit to this attack, in a comedy entitled _Satiro-mastix_, where Jonson is called “Horace, junior.”
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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= Satiro-mastix =, or _The Untrussing of the Humorous Poet_, a comedy by
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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[AU] One of the ablest mathematicians, and the most persevering Hamiltono-mastix of the day, maintains the applicability of the metaphysical notion of infinity to mathematical magnitudes; but with an assumption which unintentionally vindicates Hamilton's position more fully than could have been done by a professed disciple.
The Philosophy of the Conditioned Henry Longueville Mansel 1845
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The word used here for "disease" is actually the Greek word μαστιξ or mastix, literally a whip or the beating one might receive from a whip.
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