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* [134] Et quae marmoreo fert monstra sub aequore pontus.
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Exsultat uisu tectisque potentis alumnae non secus alma Venus quam si Paphon aequore ab alto
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Ius est mari nunc strato aequore blandiri, nunc procellis ac fluctibus inhorrescere.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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The stream of narration is sluggish, if varied by times with pleasing reflections (_viridesque placido aequore sylvas_); we are forced to do our own rowing, and only when the current is hemmed in by some narrow gorge of the poet's personal consciousness do we feel ourselves snatched along on the smooth but impetuous rush of unmistakable inspiration.
Among My Books Second Series James Russell Lowell 1855
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It is only the eastern shores of Asia, which, broken as it were by the force of the currents of the ocean* ( 'fractas ex aequore terra'), exhibit a richly-variegated configuration, peninsulas and contiguous islands alternating from the equator to 60 degrees north latitude.
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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Ferret iter; celeres nec tingeret aequore plantas.
The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758 1753
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Et raultum late difperfit in aequore roremj Infelix virgo, nequidquam a morte recepta,
P. Virgilii Maronis opera: emendabat et notulis illustr. G. Wakefield Virgil, Publius Vergilius Maro 1796
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Teucrorumque alios: ater quos aequore turbo Difpulerat, penitusque alias avexerat oras.
P. Virgilii Maronis opera: emendabat et notulis illustr. G. Wakefield Virgil, Publius Vergilius Maro 1796
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His adcenfa fuper, jadatos aequore toto Troas, reliquias Danatlm atque inmitis Achilli,
P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796
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Nec quum invedus equis altum petit aethera, nec quum Praecipitem Oceani rubro lavit aequore currum.
P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796
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