"Sacrum" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... se e suo latrocinio extrahi; nam a me quidem ista fingebantur, quippe cui nihil minus fuerit in animo quam cum carnificibus illis itineri me committere. Paulisper rixatus, cum ille nihil se commoveret, 290 ad sacrum me ire fingo; verum recta transmisso flumine Parisios peto, nec prius latronis sicam timere desivimus, quam Dionysius nos moenibus suis exciperet. Postridie Calendas Februarias Lutetiam pervenimus, itinere ...
— Selections from Erasmus - Principally from his Epistles • Erasmus Roterodamus
... along the brim of the pelvis from the bifurcation of the aorta towards the sacro-iliac synchondrosis for about two inches. Sometimes the division takes place a little higher, even at the junction of the last lumbar vertebra and the sacrum. This variation depends chiefly on the length of the artery, which, as Quain has shown, varies from one inch and a half to ...
— A Manual of the Operations of Surgery - For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners • Joseph Bell
... respondet: "Mala est fortuna tua. Neptunus, magnus aquarum deus, terrae Aethiopiae inimicus, eas poenas mittit. Sed para irato deo sacrum idoneum et monstrum saevum ex patria tua agetur. Andromeda filia tua est monstro grata. Da eam monstro. Serva caram patriam et vitam populi tui." Andromeda autem erat puella ...
— Latin for Beginners • Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge
... case of acute enteritis—inflammation of the intestines—we would not wish, while treating the abdomen with the positive pole, to increase the inflammation in the lower parts, by using equal cords and placing the negative pole at the sacrum or the coccyx. Neither would we wish to reduce the strength of the lower limbs by carrying the negative pole to the feet. Nor, yet again, would we care to endanger the thoracic viscera by running the current ...
— A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication • Daniel Clark
... the barbarous custom of offering human sacrifices to their gods,(518) till the ruin of their city:(519) an action which ought to have been called a sacrilege rather than a sacrifice. Sacrilegium verius quam sacrum. It was suspended only for some years, from the fear they were under of drawing upon themselves the indignation and arms of Darius I. king of Persia, who forbade them the offering up of human sacrifices, and the eating the flesh of dogs: but they soon resumed this horrid practice, since, in ...
— The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, • Charles Rollin
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