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A45496 Archaioskopia, or, A view of antiquity presented in a short but sufficient account of some of the fathers, men famous in their generations who lived within, or near the first three hundred years after Christ : serving as a light to the studious, that they may peruse with better judgment and improve to greater advantage the venerable monuments of those eminent worthies / by J.H. Hanmer, Jonathan, 1606-1687.; Howe, John, 1630-1705.; Howell, James, 1594?-1666. 1677 (1677) Wing H652; ESTC R25408 262,013 452

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4._o solitos_fw-la veteres_fw-la stragulam_fw-la vestem_fw-la pellibus_fw-la involvere_fw-la &_o loris_fw-la constringere_fw-la etiam_fw-la jurisconsulti_fw-la testes_fw-la sunt_fw-la constat_fw-la autem_fw-la ex-veterum_a lectione_n &_o stragula_fw-la superiora_fw-la &_o involucrum_fw-la istud_fw-la quod_fw-la antiquiores_fw-la 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d recentiores_fw-la 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d vocarunt_fw-la var●●s_fw-la coloribus_fw-la distincta_fw-la ferè_fw-la fuisse_fw-la ind_n translatae_fw-la eae_fw-la dictiones_fw-la ad_fw-la res_fw-la significandas_fw-la varietate_fw-la ensign_fw-la cujusmodi_fw-la fuit_fw-la piscis_fw-la 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d dictus_fw-la ob_fw-la coloris_fw-la aurei_fw-la virgas_fw-la per_fw-la totum_fw-la illius_fw-la corpus_fw-la productas_fw-la inquit_fw-la athenaeus_n lib._n 7._o similiter_fw-la &_o viri_fw-la docti_fw-la excerpta_fw-la sua_fw-la ex_fw-la variis_fw-la auctoribus_fw-la aut_fw-la propria_fw-la etiam_fw-la scripta_fw-la sed_fw-la veterum_fw-la referta_fw-la testimoniis_fw-la soliti_fw-la 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d well_fw-mi 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d appellare_fw-la ut_fw-la clemens_n alexandrinus_n etc._n etc._n those_o book_n and_o commentary_n say_v martianus_n victorinus_n man_n call_v stromata_n 65._o
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sunt_fw-la ad_fw-la cognoscendum_fw-la necessaria_fw-la ea_fw-la ex_fw-la apologia_fw-la quae_fw-la à_fw-la nobis_fw-la pamphili_n sancti_fw-la nostri_fw-la temporis_fw-la martyris_fw-la operâ_fw-la adjutis_fw-la elucubrata_fw-la est_fw-la illam_fw-la enim_fw-la ego_fw-la &_o pamphilus_n quo_fw-la ora_fw-la malevolorum_fw-la obtrectatorum_fw-la ●amae_fw-la origenis_n detrahentium_fw-la obturaremus_fw-la mutuis_fw-la vigiliis_fw-la accuratè_fw-la eleboravimus_fw-la licet_fw-la facilè_fw-la colligere_fw-la photius_n give_v we_o this_o account_n here_o of_o 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d etc._n etc._n i._n e._n lecti_fw-la sunt_fw-la pamphili_n martyris_fw-la &_o eusebii_n pro_fw-la origen_n libri_fw-la sex_n quorum_fw-la quinque_fw-la sunt_fw-la a_o pamphilo_n in_o carcere_fw-la 118._o praesente_fw-la etiam_fw-la eusebio_n elaborati_fw-la sextus_n verò_fw-la postquam_fw-la jam_fw-la martyr_n ferro_fw-la privatus_fw-la vitâ_fw-la ad_fw-la unicè_fw-la desideratum_fw-la deum_fw-la 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