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  • I was pleased to discover after we’d named the book Salvation that the root word save is from the Latin salvus, meaning safe.

    Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Interview: Lucia Nevai, Part 2 2008

  • Laudans invocabo Dominum, et ab inimicis meis salvus ero.

    PCED declares validity of MP "Summorum Pontificum" for the Ambrosian Rite 2009

  • After the Suppression of the Jesuits, Boscovich became a captain in the French navy and was able to travel through France using a salvus conductus given him by Louis XV.

    Barney Teaches a "Scientific Fact" 2007

  • Uxorem bonam aut invenisti, aut sic fecisti; si inveneris, aliam habere te posse ex hoc intelligamus: si feceris, bene speres, salvus est artifex.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • For the priest, as for every Christian, the Gospel has established clearly the two fundamental conditions for salvation: an act of faith and the reception of baptism: qui crediderit et baptizatus fuerit salvus erit Mk 16:16.

    Archive 2007-01-01 2007

  • Fundamental to both Cathar and nondualist heretical arguments against infant baptism was the biblical statement "he who believes and is baptized is saved; he who does not believe is condemned" (Qui crediderit et baptizatus fuerit salvus erit; qui vero non crediderit condemnabitur [Mark 16: 16]).

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • This is why every being, even the smallest, says to itself, So long as I am safe, let the world perish — dum ego salvus sim, pereat mundus.

    On Human Nature 2004

  • Its very names betoken the high regard in which it was held; salvia is derived from _salvus_, to be safe, or _salveo_, to be in good health or to heal; (hence also salvation!) and _officinalis_ stamps its authority or indicates its recognized official standing.

    Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses M. G. Kains

  • Epamīnōndās quaesīvit num salvus esset clipeus, or salvusne esset clipeus, _Epaminondas asked whether his shield was safe_; disputātur num interīre virtūs in homine possit, _the question is raised whether virtue can die in a man_; ex Sōcrate quaesītum est nōnne Archelāum beātum putāret, _the question was asked of Socrates whether he did not think Archelaus happy_.

    New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett

  • The name _Quicunque Vult_, by which this psalm is sometimes mentioned is from the first words of the Latin original _Quicunque vult salvus esse_ = Whosoever will be safe.

    The Prayer Book Explained Percival Jackson

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