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That he believes it is up to God to decide if he wants Saddam Hussein to join what he calls the pius (ph) and martyrs in heaven or to postpone his death as he sees it.
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You said they didn't sound very pius, which is what is so beautiful about them.
The First Four ED Sonnets Susan Palwick 2006
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He fixed upon one Clau'dius, who had long been the minister of his crimes, to assert that the beautiful maid was his slave, and to refer the cause to Ap'pius's tribunal for decision.
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Here are all of the Latin words that could conceivably be translated into English as "kind": pius, lenis, genus, comis, benignus, benignitas, beneficus, et almus.
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Other chants, like Agnus dei: Qui pius ac mitis, were expanded, or “troped” with additional text and music, and it was perhaps as an educational gesture that Greek, Hebrew, and Galician words were added to the ancient double-versicle “prosa” Alleluia: Gratulemur et letemur.
Archive 2009-04-01 Lu 2009
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Lux æterna luceat eis, Domine, cum sanctis tuis in æternum, quia pius es.
Missa pro Defunctis: Communio bls 2009
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An act that becomes even more transgressive since Catullus also suggests that the “pius” poet ought to be “castus” normally translated that the pious poet ought to be chaste.
Archive 2009-11-01 Sam Jordison 2009
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An act that becomes even more transgressive since Catullus also suggests that the “pius” poet ought to be “castus” normally translated that the pious poet ought to be chaste.
Catullus still rocks 2000 years on Sam Jordison 2009
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Bishop Arborelius himself is a very nice and pius man.
Bishop Arborelius on the SSPX and the newest Swedish TV attack on the Pope 2009
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Nunc potens nostri meritis opimis pectoris duros lapides repelle asperum planans iter, et reflexos dirige calles, ut pius mundi sator et redemptor mentibus pulsa luvione puris rite dignetur veniens sacratos ponere gressus.
Archive 2008-06-01 bls 2008
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