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  • This fifth Sunday after Easter is called Rogation Sunday: The word "Rogation" comes from the Latin verb rogare, meaning "to ask," and was applied to this time of the liturgical year because the Gospel reading includes the passage "Ask and ye shall receive" (John 16: 24).

    The Continuum 2009

  • To this purpose speaks the person mentioned: "Puer coepi rogare te auxilium et refugium meum, et in tuam invocationem rumpebam nodos linguae meae, et rogabam te parvus non parvo affectu, ne in schola vapularem."

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • * Puer coepi rogare te auxilium et refugium meum, et in tuam invocationem rumpebam nodos linguae meae, et rogabam te parvus non parvo affectu, ne in schola vapularem: [5624] 1

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • The president in the elective assembly _rogat populum_ (requests the people) to appoint new officers; hence _rogare_, the usual term.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • Quod sit in his eadem sententia, Brute, libellis, carmina nescio quem carpere nostra refers: nil nisi me terra fruar ut propiore rogare, et quam sim denso cinctus ab hoste loqui.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Interpositis enim paucis diebus, cum similis casus nos in eandem fortunam rettulisset, ut intellexi stertere patrem, rogare coepi ephebum, ut reverteretur in gratiam mecum, id est ut pateretur satis fieri sibi, et cetera quae libido distenta dictat.

    The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

  • Peliacis axis pondere Hectoreo tremens. tunc obruta atque eversa quodcumque accidit torpens malis rigeusque sine sensu fero. iam erepta Danais coniugem sequerer meum, nisi hic teneret: hic meos animos domat morique prohibet; cogit hic aliquid deos adhuc rogare -- tempus aerumnae addidit.

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

  • Lutherum familiarissime uti Amsdorfio: itaque rogare, ad quævis alia consilia Lutherum vocet.

    Luther and Other Leaders of the Reformation 1823-1886 1883

  • Amsdorfio: itaque rogare, ad quævis alia consilia Lutherum vocet.

    Luther and Other Leaders of the Reformation 1823-1886 1883

  • Deum Ebrseorum eis apparuiffe, fefe rogare, ut trium dierum iter ipfis rex concederet, ad facrificium offerendum Jovae Deo fuo, ne peflem aut bel - lum eis immitteret.

    Pentateuchus ex recensione textus hebraei et versionum antiquarum latine versus notisque philologicis [microform] Dathe, Johann August, 1731-1791, ed 1791

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