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  • Ibidem ergo per duos dies integros, in omni potestate morati sumtis, et cognito qu騞 nihil poterat fieri contra ciuitatem Iconij, perditis testudinibus et machins bellicis, eo qu騞 boues cecidissent a telis in modo pluui� iactis, qui eas trahebant: Simul autem eo qu騞 et vniuersa animalia nostra irruente in illa difficillima 鎔ritudine laborabant, suscepit Soltani depr鎐ationem et foedera et iuramenta peracta sub vexillis nostris, et pacem suam ei dedit.

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

  • The _foedera_ would carry the obligation of mutual assistance.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Postremo Masinissa nos ita instituit, patres conscripti, ne quem coleremus nisi populum Romanum, ne societates, ne foedera nova acciperemus; abunde magna praesidia nobis in vestra amicitia fore; si huic imperio [102] fortuna mutaretur, una occidendum nobis esse.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • For the Romans call treaties with their enemies "foedera."

    History of the Wars, Books III and IV (of 8) The Vandalic War Procopius

  • At least in so far as it places the foedera naturae above the gods and attributes some freedom of will and action to men, for as we have seen in both of these matters Vergil agrees with Lucretius.

    Vergil Frank, Tenney, 1876-1939 1922

  • Chapelain: "Praeceptum tradit amoris, quod nulla etiam coniugata regis poterit amoris praemio coronari, nisi extra coniugii foedera ipsius amoris militae cernatur adiuneta".

    Four Arthurian Romances de Troyes Chr��tien 1914

  • Roma casis enata foret, pecudumque magistri in Capitolino sanxisset fulmina monte, includiue sua potuisset Iuppiter arce, captus et a captis orbis foret? igne sepulto30 uulneribus uictor repetisset Mucius urbem? solus et oppositis clausisset Horatius armis pontem urbemque simul? rupisset foedera uirgo? tresque sub unius fratres uirtute iacerent? nulla acies tantum uicit. pendebat ab uno35

    The Rule of Fate 1912

  • Romuleum reseras iterum, Germanice, limen165 maerentemque foues inclinatosque penatis erigis. haut mirum, ductor placidissime, quando haec est quae uictis parcentia foedera Cattis, quaeque suum Dacis donat clementia montem, quae modo Marcomanos post horrida bella uagosque170

    To Claudius Etruscus on the Death of his Father 1912

  • Martis sanguineas quae cohibet manus, quae dat belligeris foedera gentibus et cornu retinet diuite copiam, 10 donetur tenera mitior hostia. et tu, qui facibus legitimis ades, noctem discutiens auspice dextera huc incede gradu marcidus ebrio, praecingens roseo tempora uinculo.

    Hymeneal 1912

  • Samnis seruitio foedera saeua luit; 80 post multas Pyrrhum cladis superata fugasti;

    Rome 1912

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