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"Go to them," said she, to one of her attendants, "and say these words from me, tanquim ovis, that is, like a sheep to the slaughter."

Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs John Foxe

22, Plutarch describes the minor triumph, called the Ovatio, which name is from the word 'ovis' a sheep; for a sheep only was sacrificed by the general who had the minor triumph; he who had the greater triumph, sacrificed an ox.

Plutarch's Lives Volume III. 46-120? Plutarch 1839

She sent a messenger to them with the words "tamquam ovis," that is, like a sheep, trusting that her erudite staff would be able to finish the rest of the Latin phrase.

From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558 2008

We have more of a moral imperative to save Homo sapiens sapiens from the weak minded Homo ovis aries aka Sheeple who buy into the vegan myth.

Are we meat eaters or vegetarians? Part I | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009

Introivit hic quis accipiter, columba exit; introivit lupus, ovis egreditur, &c. 6777.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

L. de proprietat.animal. ovis a lupo correptae pellem non esse pro indumenta corporis usurpandam, cordis enim palpitationem excitat, &c. 4344.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

For example, Lydian ovie and Etruscan oveli both of which are cognate with Latin ovis "sheep".

Etruscan Dictionary Project Updates 2007

For it was the custom for commanders, in their triumph, to immolate an ox, but in their ovation, a sheep: hence they named it Ovation, from the Latin ovis.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

In 1889, I studied with Nicolle P. bigeminum and P. ovis in the genus Piroplasma and described the forms of multiplication of these haematozoa.

Alphonse Laveran - Nobel Lecture 1967

Tum ipse in introitú cónsédit, et ut quaeque ovis ad hunc locum vénerat, éius tergum manibus tráctábat, né virí inter ovís exíre possent.

Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader John [Editor] Kirtland