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Slackia of Cuttackboom has white infundibuliform bilabiate flowers, tubo brevi, deorsum leniter curvato, lobo medio labii inferioris reliquis minore, lab.super. intus biplicato, plicis sursum convergentibus, stam. quinto valde rudimentario, antheris apice cohaerentibus.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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Hoc misso in Syriam requierunt omnibus aures; Audibant eadem haec leniter et leviter.
The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it Frances Ellen Lord
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Would it not read much more civilized, if the annals of the empire were telling us: _Nero, jam divus, leniter dixit: O Seneca, Pundit delectabilis et philosophe laute, quis dubitet te libentissime mihi hodie proferre artocreatem stoicum?
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 Various
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Heia, Lyde, leniter qui saeviunt sapiunt magis. minus mirandumst, illaec aetas si quid illorum facit, quam si non faciat. feci ego istaec itidem in adulescentia.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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Iuli iugera pauca Martialis hortis Hesperidum beatiora longo Ianiculi iugo recumbunt: lati collibus imminent recessus et planus modico tumore vertex caelo perfruitur sereniore et curvas nebula tegente valles solus luce nitet peculiari: puris leniter admoventur astris celsae culmina delicata villae. hinc septem dominos videre montes et totam licet aestimare Romam,
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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Haec cum Philosophia dignitate uultus et oris grauitate seruata leniter suauiterque cecinisset, tum ego nondum penitus insiti maeroris oblitus intentionem dicere adhuc aliquid parantis abrupi.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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Cumque me non modo tacitum sed elinguem prorsus mutumque uidisset, admouit pectori meo leniter manum et:
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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Nam cum quidam adortus esset hominem contumeliis, qui non ad uerae uirtutis usum sed ad superbam gloriam falsum sibi philosophi nomen induerat, adiecissetque iam se sciturum, an ille philosophus esset, si quidem illatas iniurias leniter patienterque tolerasset, ille patientiam paulisper adsumpsit acceptaque contumelia uelut insultans: 'Iam tandem,' inquit, 'intellegis me esse philosophum?'
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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Müller follow, reads _leniter_, but, with Kritzius and Gerlach, I prefer the verb to the adverb; which, however, is found in the greater number of the manuscripts.
Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War 86 BC-34? BC Sallust 1844
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Commodis vera medicamentis, alvum praeclpue leniter ducentibus, a gravedine utcunque liberari videbatur: viribus etiam cum mole pedetentira auiftis, in fpem ad - dudti funt parentes olini delicatulae fanita -
A Complete Collection of the Medical and Philosophical Works of John Fothergill 1781
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