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Jugurtha ubi eos Africa decessisse ratus est, neque propter loci naturam Cirtam armis expugnare potest, vallo atque fossa moenia circumdat, turres extruit easque praesidiis firmat, praeterea dies noctesque aut per vim aut dolis temptare, defensoribus moenium praemia modo, modo formidinem ostentare, suos hortando ad virtutem arrigere, [152] prorsus intentus cuncta parare.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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At Metellus, ubi oppidanos proelio intentos, simul oppidum et operibus et loco munitum videt, vallo fossaque moenia circumvenit.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Cæsar says, when he is speaking of his own camp (v. 50), 'Jubet ... ex omnibus partibus castra altiore vallo muniri portasque obstrui, &c .... cum simulatione terroris;' of which
Plutarch's Lives Volume III. 46-120? Plutarch 1839
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_ Intra septem eam _æstivant pastores_, opacam pariter et munitam vallo arboris, decora specie subter intuenti, proculve, _fornicato_ arbore.
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836
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Of all thofe who have attempted the inveftigation of this obfcure fubjed, none have been more fuccefsful than M. Ca - vallo, who in his Treatife on M.gnetifm has given particular attention to all the phenomena, and account - ed for them upon plain and rational principles, in the following manner.
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Inmemores focii vallo Cyclopis in antro Deferuere.
P. Virgilii Maronis opera: emendabat et notulis illustr. G. Wakefield Virgil, Publius Vergilius Maro 1796
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At Romanus agminc propero fil - vam Caefiam limitemque a Tiberio coeptum fcin - dit: caflxa in hmite locat: frontem ac tergum vallo, latera concaedibus munitus.
C. Cornelii Taciti opera omnia Cornelius Tacitus , Henry Homer , Melchior Freinsheim 1790
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Infcriptio pofita a Mutinenfibus ad Portas Civitatis, quas Leodoinus E - pifcopus ad fuorum Civium tutelam vallo ac aggere munierat.
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Infcriptio pofita & Mutinenfibus ad Portas Civitatis, quas LecJcinus £• plfcopus ad fuorum Civium tutelam vallo ac aggere munierat.
Antiquitates Italicæ medii ævi; sive, Dissertationes de moribus, ritibus ... aliisque faciem ... 1773
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5 Ne Vorenus quidem tum sese vallo continet*, sed omnium veritus existimationem subsequitur.
On Vorenus and Pullo 2005
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