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Semitic languages; while Hurki, which is the Chaldaean or Hamitic name, is probably from a root cognate to the Hebrew _Ur_, "vigilare," whence is derived the term sometimes used to signify "an angel" _Ir, _ "a watcher."
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Phryne on the walls of Thebes, Phryne fecit; this causeth so many bloody battles, — Et noctes cogit vigilare serenas; and induces us to watch during calm nights.
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Et debent vigilare diligenter ne aliqua astutia possint castrum furari.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Romae multa simul moliri, consuli insidias tendere, parare incendia, opportuna loca armatis hominibus obsidere, ipse cum telo esse, item alios jubere, hortari; uti semper intenti paratique essent, dies noctesque festinare, vigilare, neque insomniis neque labore fatigari.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Postremo Caesar in animum induxerat laborare, vigilare; negotiis amicorum intentus sua neglegere, nihil denegare, quod dono dignum esset; sibi magnum imperium, exercitum, bellum novum exoptabat, ubi virtus enitescere posset.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Hunc vigilare opus est, nam non preclara geruntur,
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: "Romae dulce diu fuit et solenne reclusa Mane domo vigilare, clienti promere iura" etc. It is curious that all our information on this early business comes from the literature of the Empire.
Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero W. Warde Fowler 1884
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Romae dulce diu fuit et solemne, reclusa Mane domo vigilare, clienti promere jura.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Romae dulce diu fuit et solemne, reclusa Mane domo vigilare, clienti promere jura.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Suavis Amicitiae, quemvis perferre laborem Suadet, & inducit nodteis vigilare ferenas,
T. Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex Creech, Thomas, 1659-1700. ed 1770
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