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  • As much we may say of them that are troubled with their fortunes; or ill destinies foreseen: multos angit praecientia malorum: The foreknowledge of what shall come to pass, crucifies many men: foretold by astrologers, or wizards, iratum ob coelum, be it ill accident, or death itself: which often falls out by God's permission; quia daemonem timent (saith Chrysostom) Deus ideo permittit accidere.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Apollonius filius tuus in flore decessit, ante nos ad aeternitatem digressus, tanquam e convivio abiens, priusquam in errorem aliquem e temulentia incideret, quales in longa senecta accidere solent.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Doleas enim, quantum scias accidisse, timeas quantum posit accidere.

    bard Diary Entry bard 2001

  • Hí tantá ví cecidérunt ut mágnum numerum Ligurum occíderint; ipse tamen Herculés (ut in tálibus rébus accidere cónsuévit) nihil incommodí cépit.

    Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader John [Editor] Kirtland

  • [Latin accidere, to happen what happens to be in a subject; any contingent, or nonessential attribute].

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

  • SI quicquam mutis gratum acceptumue sepulcris accidere a nostro, Calue, dolore potest, quom desiderio ueteres renouamus amores

    To Calvus: on the Death of Quintilia 1912

  • "Quod igitur in illo substantiam nominamus, non est subiectionis ratione quod dicitur, sed ultra omnem quae accidentibus est subiecta substantiam est essentia, absque omnibus quae possunt accidere solitaria omnino."

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • Quae quoniam sublato deperit seruo, constat non eam per se domino accidere sed per seruorum quodam modo extrinsecus accessum.

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • Quod iis justo Dei judicio solet accidere, qui de electionis gratia, vel temere praesumentes, vel otiose et proterve fabulantes, in viis electorum ambulare nolunt.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Quod iis justo Dei judicio solet accidere, qui de electionis gratia, vel temere praesumentes, vel otiose et proterve fabulantes, in viis electorum ambulare nolunt.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

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