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[2285] In mare caetiferum, ne te premat aspera egestas,
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It is not their function to commemorate the abominations of heathenism; they would rather bury it in eternal oblivion -- _premat nox alta_ -- but they cannot entirely tell the triumphs of their spiritual heroes without some reference, however faint, to the conquered enemies.
The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton
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Ideo bene praefatus Adrianus Papa IV. dicebat, Cathedram Petri spinosam, et Mantum ejus acutissimis per totum consertum aculeis, et tantae gravitatis, ut robustissimos premat et conterat humeros.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator Various
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Sarmaticumque premat succinctus consul aratrum, quod semper saevas debet tibi Parthia poenas, quod fugiens civile nefas redituraque numquam libertas ultra Tigrim Rhenumque recessit ac totiens nobis iugulo quaesita vagatur,
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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“Suspiciones omnes ab se segreget. neque illaec ulli pede pedem homini premat, cum surgat, neque cum in lectum inscendat proximum, neque cum descendat inde, det cuiquam manum: spectandum ne cui anulum det neque roget. talos ne cuiquam homini admoveat nisi tibi. cum iaciat, ‘te’ ne dicat: nomen nominet.
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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After the burning of the manuscript Sir Walter Scott wrote in his diary: “It was a pity that nothing save the total destruction of Byron's Memoirs would satisfy his executors; but there was a reason ” premat nox alta.”
A Publisher and His Friends Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1911
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'And all this was done with that Solemnity of Ctlebration, and appetite of Seeing, that the Statute of Sarum was forced to provide, Sub pana majoris Excommunicationis, ne quis pueros illos in prafata Procefiione, vel alias in fuo minijterio, premat aut im. pediat quoquo modo, qui minus pacifici valeant facere ds "exequi, quod illis imminet faciendum, &c.
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Refponfio: Quia aer circumftans ponderefuofcEpiusdidto, etiam vas ad irrigandos hortos confedtum cir - cumdat, itaque, quando eius fora - men fuperne in coilo obturatur, aqua pec foramina fundi defluere non poteft, cum 4 gravitate aeris fufti - neatur, ni (i aqua in altitudine 20 ul - jiarumconfiftat, utaereexternogra - vius premat.
Experimenta nova (ut vocantur) magdeburgica de vacuo spatio Guericke, Otto von, 1602-1686 1672
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