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  • Elenum quod vim habet miram ad hilaritatem et multi pro secreto habent.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • When I wrote this entry, I lazily took Scipio's word for it that there were no other blogs in Latin; had I given it a moment's thought, I would have realized that couldn't be the case there are a couple of blogs in Klingon, after all, and miram in the comments kindly directed me to three others: DEVS EX CRAPVLA, colloquia in lingua latina, and Diarium latinum.

    languagehat.com: MORE LATIN BLOGS. 2005

  • Dum peregrinus hanc miram rationem de seipso reddit, hospes et uxor ejus, oculis intentis, peregrini nasum contemplantur — Per sanctos sanctasque omnes, ait hospitis uxor, nasis duodecim maximis in toto Argentorato major est! — estne, ait illa mariti in aurem insusurrans, nonne est nasus praegrandis?

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

  • Dum peregrinus hanc miram rationem de seipso reddit, hospes et uxor ejus, oculis intentis, peregrini nasum contemplantur — Per sanctos sanctasque omnes, ait hospitis uxor, nasis duodecim maximis in toto Argentorato major est! — estne, ait illa mariti in aurem insusurrans, nonne est nasus praegrandis?

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

  • T«reorf ot lifeges oi | ineS |. qaas ibi praedicaty. apod TOteres Ae -- gyptioa Talttisse eredibile sit, aat ferte moneta em fait minos proprie - talis, ni* miram qoae certo tantom nobiHs metal -

    Doctrina numorum veterum 1792

  • Quo pacto is adversetur Har - enim cor, consideratum ut amoris sym - duino, vide apud Florezium; nam tae - bolum, res novicia est, et ab sequioris det adhuc refutare miram ejiis viri sen - aetatis ingeniis invectum, olim forte a tentiam, quam falsam esse etiam citra poetis ad amoris significationem transla - praestantem* huue numum pridem con&ti

    Doctrina nvmorvm vetervm conscripta a Josepho Eckhel ... Emerich Thomas Hohler , Joseph Eckhel, Anton von Steinbüchel, Aubin Louis Millin de Grandmaison 1792

  • Suber, porofiflimum corpus, nec vinum tranfinittit, nec aquam* Si aquas fiagnanti oleum afFun - das, olepque fiiperinfufo guttam olei Tere» binthini: circularis repulfio orietur miram re« ferens colorum pulcherrimorum varietatem*

    Francisci Tessanek ... Elementa physicae Franz Tessanek 1768

  • Et miram cft ab aliis hiftoricis prsetennifla fuifle.

    Lucii Caecilii Firmiani Lactantii De mortibus persecutorum, cum notis Stephani Baluzii ... Lactantius, Paul Bauldri, Etienne Baluze , Nicolas Thoynard , Johan Columbus , Thomas Spark , Joannes Georgius Graevius, Gisbertus Cuperus, Elias Boherellus, Thomas Gale 1692

  • miram: Thanks for the Russian phrase; it's not in my dictionaries, but while looking for it I ran across the odd expression davat' svechku 'to rear, prance of a horse.'

    languagehat.com: HOLDING A CANDLE. 2005

  • "Tam miram uniformitatem in planetarum systemate, necessario fatendum est intelligentia et concilio fuisse effectam.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

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