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= Compare Cic _de Or_ III 171 'struere uerba', and see at 4 _structura_ (p 393).
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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There are two instances in Ovid of _struere_ with a similar meaning, both from the _Ex Ponto_.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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To a man in his state of health such a project would, he says, be to fly in the face of the advice of his 'Master,' Horace; "it would be indeed _struere dotnos immemor sepulchri_."
Henry Fielding: a Memoir G. M. Godden
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I wish to be loved by my own flesh and blood; volo me patris mei similem, qui causa mea nauclerico ipse ornatu per fallaciam quam amabam abduxit ab lenone mulierem; 70 neque puduit eum id aetatis sycophantias struere et beneficiis me emere gnatum suom sibi. eos me decretumst persequi mores patris.
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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To a man in his state of health such a project would, he says, be to fly in the face of the advice of his 'Master,' Horace; “it would be indeed struere dotnos immemor sepulchri.”
Henry Fielding A Memoir Godden, G M 1909
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[The three _bene's_ are of course _le-gere, con-struere, can-tare_.]
Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries 1900
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In it we have the suffix _by_, under the forms of the verbs _ek bý_, _ek bió_, or _at búa_, and _ek byggi_ or _byggia_, manere, habitare, incolere, struere, edificare; also the nouns _bú_
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And a modular (Latin modulatus, pp. of modulari, to regulate, measure off) way of constructing (Latin constructus, past participle of construere, from com - + struere to build) new terms using relevant prefixes, roots, and suffixes.
unknown title 2008
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dum struere inmodice quod tenet optat, eget. quis metus huic legum quaeue est reuerentia ueri?
On Avarice 1912
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10, Opp.VI. i: "Nullus potest haeresim struere, nisi qui ardens ingenii est et habet dona naturæ quæ a deo artifice sunt creata: talis fuit Valentinus, tails Marcion, quos doctissimos legimus, talis Bardesanes, cujus etiam philosophi admirantur ingenium."
History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890
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