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Example sentences for "duodecim"

Lexicographically close words:
duns; dunt; duntaxat; duo; duobus; duodecimal; duodecimo; duodenal; duodenum; duologue
  1. There are similar pieces to these Duodecim Abusiones in earlier English literature (see ten Brink, Geschichte der englischen Literatur, i.

  2. A piece entitled 'De Duodecim Abusivis' is one of three pieces appended to AElfric's Lives of the Saints in MS.

  3. It was called Ludus duodecim scriptorum, from the lines dividing the alveolus.

  4. Corpet supposes the allusion to be to the game called "duodecim scripta," which resembled our backgammon; the alveolus being a kind of table on which the dice were thrown, with a rim to prevent their rolling off.

  5. This was also a game in Greece, where they often drew for the move, this was done by the Romans also in their Duodecim Scripta, and Terence says-- Ti ludis tesseris.

  6. In regno Arelatensi (kingdom of Arles, which formerly belonged to the dukes of Burgundy) et confinio maritimo est arbor cujus sarcina pretium facit duodecim nummorum Wighorniensium.

  7. It seems likely that it bore a resemblance to the Roman game called duodecim scripta ("twelve lines"), played with fifteen pieces on either side.

  8. Many such stones are known, always with six words of six letters, so that it seems clear that they were used as boards for a game, possibly the duodecim scripta already mentioned.

  9. Jesus answered them: Have ego vos duodecim elegi, et ex not I chosen you twelve; and vobis unus diabolus est?


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