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  • The corruption of so straightforward an epithet may seem unlikely, but compare Prop IV xi 65-66 'uidimus et fratrem sellam geminasse curulem;/consule quo, _festo_ [_Koppiers_: facto _codd_] _tempore_, rapta soror'.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • '_Quam legis_ a rapta Briseide littera uenit', _Tr_ V vii 1, _EP_ I vii

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Principio ut illo advenimus, ubi primum terram tetigimus, continuo Amphitruo delegit viros primorum principes; eos legat, Telobois iubet sententiam ut dicant suam; si sine vi et sine hello velint rapta et raptores tradere, si quae asportassent redderent, se exercitum extemplo domum reducturum, abituros agro Argivos, pacem atque otium dare illis; sin aliter sient animati neque dent quae petat, sese igitur summa vi virisque eorum oppidum oppugnassere.

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

  • Rhenique nodos aureamque nitellam; fragravit ore quod rosarium Paesti, quod Atticarum prima mella cerarum, quod sucinorum rapta de manu gleba; cui conparatus indecens erat pavo, inamabilis sciurus et frequens phoenix, adhuc recenti tepet Erotion busto, quam pessimorum lex amara fatorum sexta peregit hieme, nec tamen tota, nostros amores gaudiumque lususque.

    Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

  • Rhenique nodos aureamque nitellam; 35 fragrauit ore, quod rosarium Paesti, quod Atticarum prima mella cerarum, quod sucinorum rapta de manu gleba; cui comparatus indecens erat pauo, inamabilis sciurus et frequens phoenix: 40 adhuc recenti tepet Erotion busto, quam pessimorum lex amara fatorum sexta peregit hieme, nec tamen tota, nostros amores gaudiumque lususque. et esse tristem me meus uetat Paetus, 45 pectusque pulsans pariter et comam uellens:

    In Memoriam Martial 1912

  • Nilum ac nauali surgentis aere columnas. addam urbes Asiae domitas pulsumque Niphaten30 fidentemque fuga Parthum uersisque sagittis, et duo rapta manu diuerso ex hoste tropaea bisque triumphatas utroque ab litore gentis. stabunt et Parii lapides, spirantia signa,

    Exordium Vergil 1912

  • Corinthī omnia īnsignia aurī ā ducibus victōribus rapta erant.

    Latin for Beginners Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge 1900

  • It is enough to remember that in the time of Augustus the jaw bone of a female dog, which had been kept fasting, and a quill plucked from a screech-owl were required for the enchantments of Canidia, _ossa ab ore rapta jejunae canis, plumanque nocturna strigis_.

    My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) Giovanni Battista Cerruti 1882

  • A bone snatched from the jaws of a fasting bitch, and a feather from the wing of a night-owl -- "ossa ab ore rapta jejunæ canis, plumamque nocturnæ strigis" -- were necessary for

    Wanderings in South America Charles Waterton 1823

  • Haec quo - que rapta a Poenis, restituta a Scipione, a Verte concupita.

    Doctrina nvmorvm vetervm conscripta a Josepho Eckhel .. 1792

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