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Médéa nón omittendam tantam occásiónem arbitráta currum ascendit, itaque per áera vecta incolumis ad urbem
Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader John [Editor] Kirtland
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Tibull. 3, 3, 24: "et faveas concha, Cypria, vecta tua"; Statius Silv.
The Evolution of the Dragon G. Elliot Smith
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Dabitur opera. aqua calet. eamus hinc intro, ut laves. nam uti navi vecta es, credo timida es.
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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Ille vero nichil hujus generis malebat, manibus ante oculos passis, ne mulieris formositatem adspiceret: postea illum magica percussit arte, at mortuum efferebat inde cum fletibus et vagitibus, et me per timorem expulit ad ostium magni fluminis, velivoli, porro in nave, in qua te peperi, vix post dies huc Athenas vecta sum.
She Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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Now there are those who look at just the winning horse, the top two, or the tri-vecta (top three).
Elites TV 2009
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MaUir m Mo ewi% vecta equum smgularem frmo ei ecutiea moderatwr.
Doctrina nvmorvm vetervm conscripta a Josepho Eckhel .. 1792
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Quaq [u '] e per anguitas vecta male Virginis unda$
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Da bigust vecta is fleas/tiks, an’ doze wudn’t like peeled rat.
awwwwww - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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[Footnote 602: This seems a possible interpretation of a dark sentence: 'Navigiis vecta commercia te suggerunt occupare, et ambitu cupiditatis exosae solum antiqua pretia definire, quod non creditur a suspicione longinquum etiam si non sit actione vicinum.'] [Footnote 603: Is this a kind of compurgation which is here proposed?] 'Wherefore we have thought it proper to warn your Sublimity by these presents, since we do not like those whom we love to be guilty of excess, nor to hear evil reports of those who are charged with reforming the morals of others.'
The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator Senator Cassiodorus 1872
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