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authority_n absolute_a account_n action_n 17 3 6.0498 4 false
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A64777 Agiatis, Queen of Sparta, or, The civil wars of the Lacedemonians in the reigns of the Kings Agis and Leonidas : in two parts / translated out of the French. Vaumorière, M. de (Pierre Ortigue), 1610-1693. 1686 (1686) Wing V161; ESTC R35227 102,597 238

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