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There is very little doubt that the Count Robert of Paris, whose audacity in seating himself upon the throne of the Emperor gives a peculiar interest to his character, was in fact a person of the highest rank; being no other, as has been conjectured by the learned Du Cange, than an ancestor of the house of Bourbon, which has so long given Kings to
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Du Cange gives _arcus sellae equestris_ as one of the meanings of _circus_.
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In olden times the "cool tankard" was, or nearly coincided with, the wine mixed with _Burrage_, (so the translators call the herb) of Plutarch, and the _Herbosum Vinum_ of Du Cange.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 567, September 22, 1832 Various
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Du Cange, in the same treatise, says, on the authority of "Bosius," that they were a remedy against the "_comitialem morbum_," or epilepsy.
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Du Cange threw the shield of his vast learning over the honest criticism of the Jesuits.
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You have attributed to Du Cange a sentence in the Benedictine addition to his explanation of the term _Trabeatio_.
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Du Cange explains _capsilis_ to be a vessel of leather, and quotes Matt.
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For many other instances of binding books in gold, and sometimes with costly gems, I refer the reader to _Du Cange_ verb-Capsæ, and to _Mr.
Bibliomania in the Middle Ages Frederick Somner Merryweather
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Thus, the word here translated "hut" is _zabulum_; this I presume is another way of spelling _stabulum_, for the meanings given in Du Cange to _zabulum_ or similar words are here quite unsuitable.
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On their return journey they visited Florence and Milan, spending more than half a year in these libraries, and then proceeded through France to Paris, where they met scholars like Du Cange, Combefis, and Labbe.
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