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Anus interim quaedam, quae ecclesiae sustentabatur opibus, debitum caelo spiritum reddidit, et quasi de industria ordine currente rerum vicarium tumulo corpus operitur. Dubia adhuc luce in lictore zabulus occurrit, quaerit cadaver occisae, sepulchrum sibi monstrari petit; vivere putat, quam mori potuisse miratur. Recens a clericis caespes ostendetur et dudum superiecta humus cum his vocibus ingeritur flagitanti: ‘Erue scilicet ossa iam condita, infer novum sepulchro bellum, et si hoc parum est,
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avibus ferisque lanianda membra discerpe; septies percussa debet aliquid morte plus perpeti.’
Select Letters of St. Jerome. Jerome, Saint. F.A. Wright. William Heinemann Ltd.; Harvard University Press. London; Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1933. Keyboarding.
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