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Porro somniaverunt somnium uterque ipsorum, puisque somnium suum nocte eadem: singuli secundum interpretationem somnii sui, princerna et pistor qui fuerant regi Aegypti, qui erant vincti in domo carceris.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996
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Fuit autem, posthaec peccaverunt pincerna regis AEgypti, et pistor contra dominum suum regem.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996
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Hence the names _pistor_ and _pistrinum_, a baker and baker's shop, which are derived from _pinsere_, to pound.
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Dublin Diocese, but more probably a baker (pistor) of Wexford -- executed for harbouring Baltinglass and Father Rochford, S.J. + 1581: Robert Meyler, Edward Cheevers, John O'Lahy, and Patrick
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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One of the last which did so was that of the _Pfister_ or bakers (Latin, _pistor_), and this had only been done
Memoirs Charles Godfrey Leland 1863
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(_pingere_), soon became a very important and flourishing section of the plebs, though never held in high repute; and in connexion with the distributions of corn some of them probably rose above the level of the small tradesman, like the _pistor redemptor_, Marcus Vergilius
Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero W. Warde Fowler 1884
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