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  • The speech that suggested itself was said to be that which the Phantom of Cleonice dinned into the ears of the tyrant who murdered her: — “Tu cole justitiam; toque atque alios manet ultor.”

    Count Robert of Paris 2008

  • But poets and papists may go together for fabulous tales; let them free their own credits: howsoever they feign of their Nemesis, and of their saints, or by the devil's means may be deluded; we find it true, that ultor a tergo Deus,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • God the avenger, as [6731] David terms him, ultor a tergo Deus, his wrath is apprehended of a guilty, soul, as by Saul and Judas, which the poets expressed by Adrastia, or Nemesis:

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • '_Exoriare aliquis nostris ex ossibus ultor_!' or in German, '_Moge_, _wenn ich beseitigt werde_, _irgend ein Racher und Nachfolger aus meinen Gebeinen auferstehen_!'

    Immortal Memories Clement King Shorter 1891

  • Proinde quando dicitur in Scripturis Deus indurare, excoecare, et tradere in reprobum sensum, intelligendum id est, quod justo judicio Deus id faciat, tanquam judex et ultor justus.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • He also issued roubles with his portrait under the name of Czar Peter III., and sent out a circular note with the words, "Redevivus et ultor."

    Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian Demetrios Vikelas 1871

  • Cannarum vindex, et tanti sanguinis ultor, Annulus. —

    Christian Morals 1605-1682 1863

  • * Cannarum vindex, et tanti sanguinis ultor, Annulus.

    Christian Morals 1605-1682 1863

  • But the impartial historian owes a duty likewise to obscure merit, and my solicitude to render a tardy justice is perhaps quickened by my having known those who, had their own field of labour been less secluded, might have found a readier acceptance with the reading publick, I could give an example, but I forbear: _forsitan nostris ex ossibus oritur ultor_.

    The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855

  • "Tu cole justitiam; toque atque alios manet ultor."

    Waverley Novels — Volume 12 Walter Scott 1801

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