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  • C鎡erum spem et fiduciam in Christo sitam habeo, nos (de se et vxore loquens) licet corpus hoc nostrum caducum, inimicorum flammis, mortalitatis corruptionem subeat, ab 鎡ernis tamen flammis liberatum iri.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Cæterum spem et fiduciam in Christo sitam habeo, nos (de se et vxore loquens) licet corpus hoc nostrum caducum, inimicorum flammis, mortalitatis corruptionem subeat, ab æternis tamen flammis liberatum iri.

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • Docent enim Physici, commune esse validioribus flammis omnibus vt siccis extinguantur, alantur ver� humidis: Vnde etiam fabri, aqua inspersa, ignem excitare solent.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Docent enim Physici, commune esse validioribus flammis omnibus vt siccis extinguantur, alantur verò humidis: Vnde etiam fabri, aqua inspersa, ignem excitare solent.

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • Lucretius asks the same question: — "Quod si Juppiter atque alii fulgentia divi terrifico quatiunt sonitu cælestia templa et jaciunt ignem quo qoiquest cumque voluptas, cur quibus incautum scelus aversabile cumquest non faciunt icti flammas ut fulguris halent pectore perfixo, documen mortalibus acre, et potius nulla sibi turpi conscius in re volvitur in flammis innoxius inque peditur turbine cælesti subito correptus et igni? cur etiam loca sola petunt frustraque laborant?"

    Lunheng 1962

  • = Compare _Met_ XIII 7-8 (Ajax speaking of Ulysses) 'at non Hectoreis dubitauit cedere flammis,/quas ego sustinui, quas hac a classe fugaui' and _Met_ XIII 384-85 (the death of Ajax) 'Hectora qui solus, qui ferrum ignesque Iouemque/sustinuit totiens, unam non sustinet iram'.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • "Atque levem stipulam crepitantibus urere flammis."

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 Various

  • At vero elatus, in funesto sacrilegi cordis desiderio perseverans, _flammis combustus_ cum suis participibus seditiosis Gracchis, exemplum sui cunctis hæreticis relinquens deperiit.

    The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) Henry Martyn Baird

  • Finally, the genitive here is strongly supported by _Ibis_ 475-76 'ut Macedo rapidis icta est cum coniuge flammis,/sic precor _aetherii uindicis_ igne cadas'.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • V. Aeneid, I. 726: dependent lychni laquearibus aureis incensi, et noctem flammis funalia vincunt.

    The Waste Land Thomas Stearns 1922

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