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  • Hippolytus for pity and protection (619): muliebre non est regna tutari urbium; tu qui iuventae flore primaevo viges cives paterno fortis imperio rege, sinu receptam supplicem ac servam tege. miserere viduae.

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

  • 'Gif theow man theowne to nydhffimed genyde, gabete mid his eowende: Si servus servam ad sfuprum coegerit, compenset hoc virga sua virili.

    Memoir Correspondence And Miscellanies Jefferson, Thomas 1829

  • 'Gif theow man theowne to nydhffimed genyde, gabete mid his eowende: Si servus servam ad sfuprum coegerit, compenset hoc virga sua virili.

    Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 Thomas Jefferson 1784

  • "Gif theow man theowne to nydhed genyde, gabte mid his eowende:" "Si servus servam ad stuprum coegerit, compenset hoc virga sua virili.

    Autobiography 1821

  • "Gif theow man theowne to nydhed genyde, gabte mid his eowende:" "Si servus servam ad stuprum coegerit, compenset hoc virga sua virili.

    Public Papers 1775

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