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  • Eliseo Garcia 1 year ago ahahahawesome pecus 1 year ago superb rhythm

    The Tarantino Mixtape on Vimeo 2010

  • Under Pressure Productions 2 years ago wow, i've seen this all over the place, i always wonderd who created it, sweet job pecus 2 years ago

    Balancing Point on Vimeo 2010

  • [5169] The poorest swains will do as much, [5170] Mille pecus nivei sunt et mihi vallibus agni;

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Chinese say, that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blind: (though [403] Scaliger accounts them brutes too, merum pecus,) so thou and thy sectaries are only wise, others indifferent, the rest beside themselves, mere idiots and asses.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • [278] Vow virginity, talk of holiness, and yet indeed a notorious bawd, and famous fornicator, lascivum pecus, a very goat.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Oves, olim mite pecus, nunc tam indomitum et edax ut homines devorent, &c. Morus.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Note 89: Must., pp. 15 — 16, esp.chap. 44: "Quomodo mense septimo agendae sunt gravidae mulieres? in omnibus patienter et quiete, ne nimia gestatione pecus iam perfectum foris excutiatur, siquidem etiam et septimani nasci possunt."

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • For the use of money was then infrequent amongst the Romans, but their wealth in cattle great; even now pieces of property are called peculia, from pecus, cattle; and they had stamped upon their most ancient money an ox, a sheep, or a hog; and surnamed their sons Suillii, Bubulci,

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • Qua parte autem plana est præstat plurimum pabulo, tam læto, vt pecus depellatur à pascuis, ne ab aruina suffocetur.

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • Qua parte autem plana est pr鎠tat plurimum pabulo, tam l鎡o, vt pecus depellatur � pascuis, ne ab aruina suffocetur.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

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