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Sponsus rubra veste tectus/Visus, sed non intellectus,/Redit ad palatium,
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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Can a man, saith Solomon, Prov.vi. 27, carry fire in his bosom and not burn? it will hardly be hid; though they do all they can to hide it, it must out, plus quam mille notis — it may be described, [5253] quoque magis tegitur, tectus magis aestuat ignis.
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Omnes tam viri quam faemina similibus in forma vestibus inducuntur, videlicet valdè latis, et breuibus vsque ad genua cum apertura in lateribus quam firmant (dum volunt) ansis quibusdam, nam vtérque sexus est brachijs seu femoralibus plenè tectus.
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Labyrinthus nullo addito ligno exædificatus, domos mille et regias duodecim perpetuo parietis ambitu amplexus, marmore exstructus et tectus, unum in se descensum habens, intus pene innumerabiles vias, multis ambagibus huc et illuc remeantibus.
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Omnes tam viri quam faemina similibus in forma vestibus inducuntur, videlicet vald� latis, et breuibus vsque ad genua cum apertura in lateribus quam firmant (dum volunt) ansis quibusdam, nam vt閞que sexus est brachijs seu femoralibus plen� tectus.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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_P. _ niger, pilis mutabili-sericeis tectus; alis subhyalinis, apice nebuloso.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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_Quid autem tam necessarium, quam tenere semper arma, quibus vel tectus ipse esse possis, vel provocare integros, et te ulcisci lacessitus?
A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Caius Cornelius Tacitus
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"In Pompeiano tectus spectabo theatro; Nam ventus populo vela negare solet." cf. Dion Cassius lix.
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Fuit et Labyrinthus nullo addito ligno exædificatus, domos mille et regias duodecim perpetuo parietis ambitu amplexus, marmore exstructus et tectus, unum in se descensum habens, intus pene innumerabiles vias, multis ambagibus huc et illuc remeantibus.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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'quoque magis tegitur, tectus magis aestuat ignis'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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