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  • Domini Ioannis Papæ 22: cuius benedictione obedientiaque recepta cum societate fratrum secum ire volentium ad partes infidelium se transferret: Cùmque sic eundo versus summum Pontificem, non multum distaret à ciuitate Pisana, in quadam via occurrit sibi quidam senex in habitu peregrini eum salutans ex nomine, Aue (inquiens) frater Odorice: Et cùm frater quaereret quo modo ipsius haberet noticiam?

    The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

  • Wily as the old chap is, my wily arts impelled him and compelled him to believe me in everything. nunc amanti ero filio senis, quicum ego bibo, quicum edo et amo, regias copias aureasque optuli, ut domo sumeret neu foris quaereret. non mihi isti placent Parmenones, Syri, qui duas aut tris minas auferunt eris.

    Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

  • Cum Caesar ab explōrātōribus quaereret quī illud oppidum incolerent, explōrātōrēs respondērunt eōs esse homines summā virtūte et magnō cōnsiliō.

    Latin for Beginners Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge 1900

  • Quanto magis accedit cumulo rituum in Ecclesia, tanto magis detrahitur non tantum libertati Christianae, sed et Christo et ejus fidei: dum vulgus ea quaerit in ritibus, quae quaereret in solo Dei

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Polycarpum Romam venissè, ut quaereret de festo paschatis: ex his

    The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution 1854

  • Gadmus pnl* sus, eriit a patre, ut sororem ra - piam quaereret.

    P. Ovidii Nasonis Fastorum libri VI. 1812

  • Cttdmus puU sus erat a parrej ut sororem ra - ptam quaereret.

    P. Ovidii Nasonis Fastorum libri VI. Ovid, Publius Ovidius Naso, Gottlieb Erdmann Gierig 1812

  • Phoenix - Page 105Henricus Septimus rex fui feculi Phoenix unicus memoria mortis ta£tus, locum fepulturx fuae aptum quaereret, diruto Eadueardino templo veteri illo, ...

    The Itinerary of John Leland the Antiquary: Published from the Original MS. in the Bodleian ... 1769

  • Vergil (70 B.C. –19 B.C.) PATER ipse colendi haud facilem esse uiam uoluit, primusque per artem mouit agros curis acuens mortalia corda, nec torpere graui passus sua regna ueterno. ante Iouem nulli subigebant arua coloni; 5 ne signare quidem aut partiri limite campum fas erat: in medium quaerebant, ipsaque tellus omnia liberius nullo poscente ferebat. ille malum uirus serpentibus addidit atris, praedarique lupos iussit pontumque moueri, 10 mellaque decussit foliis ignemque remouit, et passim riuis currentia uina repressit, ut uarias usus meditando extunderet artis paulatim, et sulcis frumenti quaereret herbam, ut silicis uenis abstrusum excuderet ignem.

    'In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread' Vergil 1912

  • et sonat Herculeo structa labore uia; hic, ubi, mortalis dextra cum quaereret urbes, 5

    Elegy on the Death of Marcellus 1912

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