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  • The ancient Germanic tribes enforced a similar prohibition; Tacitus found such mores remarkable and commented on both in nearly identical language: ... quemquam ex agnatis necare flagitium habetur ...,

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  • '[The Germani] hold it shameful to kill any unwanted child' (Germania, 19) and ... nam et necare quemquam ex agnatis nefas ... putant, '[The Jews] think it criminal to kill any unwanted child' (Histories, 5.5).

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  • And those men which have no other object of their love, than greatness, wealth, authority, &c., are rather feared than beloved; nec amant quemquam, nec amantur ab ullo: and howsoever borne with for

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Nutin changes: Nemo umquam neque poeta neque orator fuit, qui quemquam meliorem quam se arbitrater.

    languagehat.com: RELAY TRANSLATION. 2004

  • Quarto: negat in conuituijs quemquam discumbentium � mensa surgere: sed matres familias singulis conuiuis quoties opus fuerit matellas porrigere.

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

  • Quarto: negat in conuituijs quemquam discumbentium à mensa surgere: sed matres familias singulis conuiuis quoties opus fuerit matellas porrigere.

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • II 563-65 'non ego mordaci destrinxi carmine quemquam ... _candidus_ a salibus suffusis felle refugi' and _Ibis_ 1-8 'Tempus ad hoc, lustris bis iam mihi quinque peractis,/omne fuit Musae carmen inerme meae

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • All are from the poems of exile, and all are about the ill-treatment accorded Ovid: _Tr_ II 571 'nec mihi credibile est quemquam _insultasse iacenti_', _Tr_ III xi 1, and _Tr_ V viii 3-4

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Charón pró hóc offició mercédem postulábat, neque quemquam, nisi hóc praemium prius dedisset, tránsvehere volébat.

    Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader John [Editor] Kirtland

  • 'Quaecumque a celeberrimis viris facunde dicta teneo, ne ad quemquam privatim pertineant, populo dedicabo.'

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

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