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So also Kelitizein = peccare superne or equum agitare supernum of Horace.
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Schneid., analambanein = retinere equum, anhalten, pariren. i.e. “rein in” of the “Parade.”
On Horsemanship 2007
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[4525] Thessalus amat equum pullinum, buculum Aegyptius,
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Theogine's horse in Heliodorus [4846] curvet, prance, and go so proudly, exultans alacriter et superbiens, &c., but that such as mine author supposeth, he was in love with his master? dixisses ipsum equum pulchrum intelligere pulchram domini fomam?
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Terram non vis malam, malam segetem, sed bonam arborem, equum bonum, &c.
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Lascivia superat equum, impudentia canem, astu vulpem, furore leonem.
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Ames parentem, si equum, aliter feras; praestes parentibus pietatem, amicis dilectionem.
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Ante hanc Ecclesiam, super columnam marmoream habetur de ære aurato opere fuscrio, magna imago Iustiniani quondam Imperatoris super equum sedentis, fuit autem primitus in manu imaginis fabricata sphæra rotunda, quæ iam diu è manu sua sibi cecidit, in signum quòd Imperator muliarum terraram dominium perdidit.
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Nam postquam equum, bouem vel hominem, etiam asinum occiderit, leuat et asportat pleno volatu: tanquam cornua bouis aut vaccae sunt illi vngulæ, de quibus etiam fieri solent ciphi ad bibendum, qui plurimùm reputantur preciosi.
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Si bibit sedens super equum, infundit antequam bibat, super collum vel crinem equi.
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