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and injure him xli
Whenever, then, calumniating women come and say to a wife, "How badly your husband treats you, though a chaste and loving wife!" let her answer, "How would he act then, if I were to begin to hate him and injure him?" § xli.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

again in Heb xii
So again in Heb. xii.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

ambobus Iason Her XI
Other instances of the word in Ovid at ix 13 'gratatusque darem cum dulcibus oscula uerbis', Her VI 119 'nunc etiam peperi; gratare ambobus, Iason!', Her XI 65, Met I 578, VI 434, IX 244 & 312, and Fast III 418.
— from The Last Poems of Ovid by Ovid

also in his xxxvi
These and many other thinges doth Cornelius write, and Trogus also in his xxxvi.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. by Richard Hakluyt

Apostle in Hebrews xii
And the Apostle, in Hebrews xii, calls them God's fatherly chastenings, when he says, "He scourgeth every son whom He receiveth."
— from Works of Martin Luther, with Introductions and Notes (Volume I) by Martin Luther

and invite Hannibal xxiv
They suffocate the Roman soldiers, and invite Hannibal, xxiv.
— from The History of Rome, Books 37 to the End with the Epitomes and Fragments of the Lost Books by Livy

Ascended into Heaven XLVIII
"He Ascended into Heaven" XLVIII.
— from Child's Story of the Bible by Mary A. (Mary Artemisia) Lathbury

and in Herodotus Xenophon
The great antiquity of tattooing is shown by reference to it in the Old Testament, and in Herodotus, Xenophon, Tacitus, Ammianus, and Herodian.
— from Picture-Writing of the American Indians Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1888-89, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1893, pages 3-822 by Garrick Mallery

and Its Horrors XXIX
Weyler's Reconcentration Policy and Its Horrors XXIX.
— from Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom by Trumbull White


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