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[740] Est orcus ille, vis est immedicabilis, est rabies insana, love is madness, a hell, an incurable disease; inpotentem et insanam libidinem [741] Seneca calls it, an impotent and raging lust.
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Est orcus illa vis, est immedicabilis, est rabies insana.
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Lagonaedatera (Greek lateris cavitas: Greek orcus: and Greek alter.).
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Lagonaedatera (Greek lateris cavitas: Greek orcus: and Greek alter.).
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Under this my Gregorian chant, and beautiful wax-light phantasmagory, kindly hidden from you is an abyss of black doubts, scepticism, nay, sans-culottic Jacobinism, an orcus that has no bottom.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various
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Lagonaedatera (lagon lateris cavitas: aides orcus: and eteros alter.).
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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I am surprised Rogers isn't doing more (that I know about) lol just being a little tounge in cheek. it's the "in thing" to hate on dana nowadays, and alot of fans tend to focus on the negative more than the positive. he is a big reason we are able to blog about the sport as much as we do nowadays, but like orcus (linx) said, there are many others.
MMA Mania 2009
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In fplendore orcus tui, omnes vcnicnc, laudeai D6mino annun - tlantcs, alleiuia.
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