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[2332] Concussis cecidere animis, seu frondibus ingens
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Multa renascentur quae iam cecidere cadentque quae nunc sunt in honore vocabula, si volet usus, quem penes arbitrium est et ius et norma loquendi.
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'Principiis tamen in rerum fecere ruinas et graviter magni magno cecidere ibi casu.'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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Nongenti ex Hebridianis et iis qui Donaldo adhaeserant cecidere cum
An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) Robert S. Rait
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If the first end of a writer be to be understood, then as his language grows obsolete, his thoughts must grow obscure: _multa renascentur quae nunc cecidere; cadentque, quae nunc sunt in honore vocabula, si volet usus, quem penes arbitrium est et jus et norma loquendi_.
English literary criticism Various
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Well may we say with the poet, _Multa renascuntur quæ jam cecidere_.
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855
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If the first end of a writer be to be understood, then, as his language grows obsolete, his thoughts must grow obscure: _multa renascentur quæ nunc cecidere, cadentque, quæ nunc sunt in honore vocabula, si volet usus, quem penes arbitrium est et jus et norma loquendi.
The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 2 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes John Dryden 1665
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Prasfeftus ta - men & odo centuriones, ac proipptiflSimus quifque manipulus cecidere: nec multo poft pabulantes nof - 'tros, miffafque ad fubfidium turmas profiigant.
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■ ** Tot nati cecidere Deum; qum occidit una Sarpedon mea progenies: etiam fua Tumum
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Friadpi js tamen in rerum fecere ruinas f Etgraviter Magni magno cecidere ibi cafu:
T. Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex Titus Lucretius Carus , Thomas Creech , George Gordon Byron Byron 1770
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