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  • Ingens multitudo is the expression of Tacitus, xv.

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • Sartorius (p. 289) feels the difficulty so strongly that he suggests that this was the pay given to the whole troop, whose number was not large; but 'multitudo' seems hostile to this hypothesis [383].

    The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator Senator Cassiodorus 1872

  • Note 31: Salimbene de Adam Chronica, ed.O. Holder-Egger, MGH SS 32.30: "Eodem anno, scilicet MCCXII, trium puerorum quasi duodennium, qui se visionem vidisse dicebant, crucis signaculum assumentium in partibus Colonie persuasu multitudo innumera pauperum utriusque sexus et puerorum de Theotonia peregrinantium in Ytalia crucesignatorum accessit, unanimi corde et una voce dicentium se per siccum maria transituros et terram sanctam Ierusalem in Dei potentia recuperaturos; sed demum quasi evanuit universa." back

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • Monteforti, a French lord, anno 1345, tanta corvorum multitudo aedibus morientis insedit, quantam esse in Gallia nemo judicasset (a multitude of crows alighted on the house of the dying man, such as no one imagined existed in France).

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Sed quoniam omne negotium quod sine libramine rationis et sine vigore consilii fuerit inchoatum non bonum sortitur exitum; postquam hec stolida multitudo pervenit ad partes Ytalie, diffusi sunt et dispersi per civitates et oppida. back

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • How many diseases there are, is a question not yet determined; [881] Pliny reckons up 300 from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot: elsewhere he saith, morborum infinita multitudo, their number is infinite.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • 'Tis multitudo perdentium et pereuntium, a destructive rout that seek one another's ruin.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Populi multitudo diligente cultura foecundat solum.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • + “Hominum infinita multitudo est creberrimaque; aedificia fere Gallicis consimilia.” —

    Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial 2007

  • In the first instance the people multitudo as a whole may make laws or they may authorize the sovereign to do so, in which case the latter “has the power of legislating only in so far as he bears the person of the multitude.”

    The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas Dino Bigongiari 1997

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