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  • Et dixit Dominus: Tu doles super hederam, in qua non laborasti neque fecisti, ut cresceret, quae sub una nocte nata est et sub una nocte periit.

    Archive 2008-09-07 papabear 2008

  • Et dixit Dominus: Tu doles super hederam, in qua non laborasti neque fecisti, ut cresceret, quae sub una nocte nata est et sub una nocte periit.

    Jonah 4 papabear 2008

  • Romam triumpho ductus tandemque in carcerem conjectus, animi dolore periit.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Postquam puer morbo abiit, et ipse delphinus periit.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Ploras aquam profundere, &c. periit dum fumus de tigillo exit foras.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • We know that the mathematical professor Richmann was killed at St. Petersburg, in 1753, by a thunderbolt which he had drawn into his chamber: “Arte sua periit.”

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Abr. 1849 = B.C. 168, 'Ennius poeta septuagenario maior articulari morbo periit, sepultusque est in Scipionis monumento via

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • _Vita_ iii. _b_, 'Tristitia et angore periit anno aetatis suae altero et octuagesimo.'

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • Compare 43-44 'quid mandem quaeris? peream nisi dicere uix est,/_si modo_ qui periit ille perire potest'.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • [180] "Quid profuit hæc tua industria, quis infelicior in filiis? quorum alter male periit: alter nec regi potest nec regere?"

    Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study 1886

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