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See 24, 31 for the statement on women and children as imperfect men: "Videtur autem femina quasi puer siue mas imperfectus et eius menstrua quasi sperma indigestum, sanguineam formam retinens propter debilitatem caloris."
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Catilina vero longe a suis inter hostium cadavera repertus est, paululum etiam spirans ferociamque animi, quam habuerat vivus, in vultu retinens.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Membrana retinens: the stretched part of the membrane around the rectum of butterfly larvae, used in the change to the chrysalis.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Igitur si quod in omni fortunae tuae censu pretiosissimum possidebas, id tibi diuinitus inlaesum adhuc inuiolatumque seruatur, poterisne meliora quaeque retinens de infortunio iure causari?
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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[Footnote 765: 'Praetoriorum luminibus decenter ornata.'] [Footnote 766: So Claudian (De VI Consolata Honorii 196), 'et Addua visu caerulus.'] [Footnote 767: 'Ut nomen retinens et colorem in Septentrionem obesiore alvei ventre generetur.'] 'So delightful a region makes men delicate and averse to labour.
The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator Senator Cassiodorus 1872
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San£la Prometh£« retinens veftigia flammx. so Carmen amant fuperi, tremebundaque Tartara carmen Ima ciere valet, divofque ligare profundos,
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(_indicating Hegio_) you have found. haec per dexteram tuam te dextera retinens manu opsecro, infidelior mihi ne fuas quam ego sum tibi. tu hoc age. tu mihi erus nunc es, tu patronus, tu pater, tibi commendo spes opesque meas.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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It is said of him, 'Catilina vero longe a suis inter hostium cadavera repertus est; paululum etiam spirans, ferocitatemque animi quam vivus habuerat in vultu retinens.' [
The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 George A. Aitken
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[101] [Compare "Catilina vero longè a suis, inter hostium cadavera repertus est, paululum etiam spirans ferociamque animi, quam habuerat vivus, in vultu retinens."
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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& anguftias loci pro munimento retinens, poft - quam propius fuggreflTus hoftis certo jaftu tela exhauferat, velut cuneo erupit.
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