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By means whereof, when the fatal hazard of the dice ensueth thereupon, the parties cast or condemned by the said aleatory chance will with much greater patience, and more mildly and gently, endure and bear up the disastrous load of their misfortune, than if they had been sentenced at their first arrival unto the court, as not.gl. ff. de excus.tut. l.tria. onera.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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By means whereof, when the fatal hazard of the dice ensueth thereupon, the parties cast or condemned by the said aleatory chance will with much greater patience, and more mildly and gently, endure and bear up the disastrous load of their misfortune, than if they had been sentenced at their first arrival unto the court, as not.gl. ff. de excus.tut. l.tria. onera.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Illi episcopi superhumerale non habent, qui aliorum onera ferre recusant: quales erant illi de quibus
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Magnum onus est dignitas episcopalis: isti humeri totius Ecclesiae onera ferre, et oves languidas et populi peccata ferre debent.
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Ennius -- ita ferebat duo quae maxima putantur onera, paupertatem et senectutem, ut eis paene delectari videretur. '
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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Itaque et navigium ad ripes appellere, et funes de arboribus ibi natis religare, et navis onera in his locis reponere, liberum quique est sicuti nec per flumen ipsum navigare quisquam prohibetur.
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Tantum petunt, ut injusta onera remittant, quae nova sunt, et praeter consuetudinem Ecclesiae
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Hinc sunt illa onera, quod peccatum mortale sit, etiam sine offensione aliorum, in feriis laborare minibus, quod sit peccatum mortale omittere horas Canonicas, quod certi cibi polluant conscientiam, quod jejunia sint opera placantia
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Ad hanc excutiendam atque asportandam, nequissimi adolescentuli perreximus nocte intempestâ; et abstulimus inde onera ingentia, non ad nostras epulas, sed vel projicienda porcis, etiamsi aliquid inde comedimus ....
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Fertur enim mulier fortissima sæpissime restitisse, quum diceret se gemmorum onera ferre non posse.
Zenobia or, the Fall of Palmyra William Ware 1824
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