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The same as all antiquity attached to it: “Finxit in effigiem moderantum cuncta deorum.”
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Qui cùm transirent per deserta quædam, monstra inuenerunt effigiem humanam habentia, quæ non nisi vnum brachium cum manu in medio pectoris, et vnum pedem habebant, et duo cum vno arco sagittabant, adeóque fortiter currebant, quòd equi eos inuestitare non poterant.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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Thibiorum genus, multosque alios eiusdem naturæ: quorum notas tradit in altero oculo geminam pupillam, in altero equi effigiem.
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Thibiorum genus, multosque alios eiusdem natur� quorum notas tradit in altero oculo geminam pupillam, in altero equi effigiem.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Qui c鵰 transirent per deserta qu鎑am, monstra inuenerunt effigiem humanam habentia, qu� non nisi vnum brachium cum manu in medio pectoris, et vnum pedem habebant, et duo cum vno arco sagittabant, ade髊ue fortiter currebant, qu騞 equi eos inuestitare non poterant.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Sed cum per deserta transiret, etiam qu鎑am monstra effigiem humanam habentia inuenerunt: sed non nisi vnum brachium cum manu, in medio pectoris, et vnum pedem habebant; et duo sagittarunt cum vno arcu, et isti ita fortiter currebant, quod equi eos inuestigare non poterant.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The enlightened and benevolent Pliny thus publicly professes himself an atheist: — Quapropter effigiem Dei formamque quaerere imbecillitatis humanae reor.
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For Xenophon who did imitate so excellently as to give us effigiem justi imperii, the pourtraiture of a just Empyre under the name of Cyrus, as Cicero saith of him, made therein an absolute heroicall Poeme.
Defence of Poesie 1992
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[24] In baptism which, Augustine believed, established the effigiem
Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler 345-430 1955
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For Xenophon, who did imitate so excellently, as to give us _effigiem justi imperii_ the portraiture of a just empire under the name of Cyrus (as Cicero says of him), made therein an absolute heroical poem.
English literary criticism Various
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