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The century writers make out of Dionysius Alexandrinus’s epistle to Xistus, bishop of Rome, that the custom of the church of Alexandria in receiving the sacrament, was, ut mensae assisterent. It is also noted by Hospiman, that in the days of Tertullian the Christians stantes sacramenta percipiebant.
Interim equitum turmae fugere, covinarii peditum se proelio miscuere: et, quanquam recentem terrorem intulerant, densis tamen hostium agminibus et inaequalibus locis haerebant: minimeque equestris ea pugnae facies erat, cum aegre diu stantes simul equorum corporibus impellerentur, ac saepe vagi currus, exterriti sine rectoribus equi, ut quemque formido tulerat, transversos aut obvios incursabant.
"Nec quicquam nudis vitalibus obstat Iam, praeter stantes in summis ossibus hastas." This is grotesque enough; the banquet of birds and beasts who feed on the skin of Pharsalia is even worse. The details are too loathsome to quote.
Such a subject even the powerful Erictho was compelled to select, as alone capable of being reanimated even by "her" potent magic gelidas leto scrutata medullas, Pulmonis rigidi stantes sine vulnere fibras Invenit, et vocem defuncto in corpore quaerit.
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