Significatio vocis sanguis | Babel Free

Definitiones

1. blood
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2. descent, descendant, parentage, progeny, blood relative, flesh-and-blood, family, race
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3. blood (consanguinity)
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Aequivalentia

Exempla

“Tuscō sanguine terra rubet”

The land is red with Tuscan blood.

“Plūrēs efficimur, quotiēns mētīmur ā vōbīs: sēmen est sanguī̆s Chrīstiānōrum.”

Translation by Alexander Souter We spring up in greater numbers the more we are mown down by you: the blood of the Christians is the seed of a new life.

“‘Iuppiter,’ inquit, ‘habet Rōmāna potentia vīrēs:”

‘‘Oh, Jupiter,’’ he said, ‘‘The Roman power [the Roman political state] [now] has strength [of its own]: It has no [further] need with the service of my blood [progeny; descendant].’’ (Jupiter hears the plea of Mars to deify his son Romulus (mythology).)

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