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  • Et fuit, circiter post tres menses, nuntiatum fuit ipsi Jehudah, discendo, Fornicata est Thamar nurus tua, et etiam ecce, est gravida ex fornicationibus.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

  • The fact played an important part in determining Latin poetic vocabulary; for instance, such an ordinary word as _femina_, cretic in its oblique cases, is usually represented through metonymy by such words as _nurus_ and _mater_.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • For _atria_ compare _Her_ XVI 185-86 'occurrent denso tibi Troades agmine matres,/nec capient Phrygias _atria_ nostra nurus'.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • = Compare XV 36 'dura iubet _gelido_ Parca _sub axe_ mori' and _Her_ VI 105-6 (Hypsipyle to Jason) 'non probat Alcimede mater tua -- consule matrem --/non pater, _a gelido_ cui uenit _axe_ nurus'.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Liuia diuorumque nurus gessere superbae. incusat spes aegra moras longique uidentur stare dies segnemque rotam non flectere Phoebe.

    The Marriage of Honorius and Maria Claudian 1912

  • Vincit uirgineus decor20 longe Cecropias nurus, et quas Taygeti iugis exercet iuuenum modo muris quod caret oppidum, et quas Aonius latex25

    Hymeneal 1912

  • Nam cum in canone 79 eos qui suas nurus accipiunt non severius puniat, quam cui cum sorore ex matre vel ex patre rem habent, forte videri posset idem statuere de iis qui in novercas insaniunt.

    NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

  • In a law of Romulus, we read _Si nurus ... plorassit ... sacra divis parendum estod_, where the full form of the imperative occurs, the only instance in the whole range of the language.

    The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879

  • Quasi contract.posthumous. privignus.nurus. noverca, serviana. ex malefieio. usufruct.

    The Institutes of Justinian Thomas Cooper , George Harris 1812

  • Vidi Hecubam, centumque nurus, Priamumqu per aras Sanguine fcedantem, quos ipfe facraverat, ignis.

    P. Virgilii Maronis opera: emendabat et notulis illustr. G. Wakefield Virgil, Publius Vergilius Maro 1796

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