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  • Lib.ult. et l. 1. ad finem consuetudine non minus laudabili, quam veteri contubernia Rhetorum Rythmorum in urbibus et municipiis, certisque diebus exercebant se sagittarii, gladiatores,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Et amaritudine affecerunt eum, et jaculati sunt, et odio habuerunt eum sagittarii.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

  • Is missus cum praesidio equitum atque peditum, funditorum Balearium; [595] praeterea iere sagittarii et cohors Peligna cum velitaribus armis, itineris properandi causa, neque his secus atque aliis armis adversum tela hostium, quod ea levia sunt, muniti.

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

  • The next four devices are more or less elaborations upon that of which we give a reproduction; the seventh is the Sagittarius device in black with white characters: between the sagittarii is seen the sun and flaming stars, and below the initials

    Printers' Marks A Chapter in the History of Typography 1901

  • P. 57. 1. 19 addatur: Cf.casp. sagittarii Exercitationes IV in luAini hifloriam.

    Bibliotheca historica. A.I.G. Meuselio ita digesta ut pæne novum opus videri possit Burcard Gotthelff Struve 1782

  • "Rex interim, coactis in unum comitibus, optimisque regni sui proceribus, coepit cum eis de belli ratione tractare, placuitque plurimis, ut quotquot aderant armati milites et sagittarii cunctum praeirent exercitum, quatenus armati armatos impeterent, milites congrederentur militibus, sagittae sagittis obviarent.

    An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) Robert S. Rait

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