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"roman": "ter revolūta torō est ….",
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"translation": "Lifting herself three times, [Dido] had tried to raise upon her elbow, and thrice she had rolled back upon the bed ….",
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"ref": "2004, Ephemeris:",
"text": "Olafur Ragnar Grimsson ter iam primarius minister Islandiae electus est.",
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"ref": "29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.509–511",
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"translation": "Altars are standing all around [the pyre], and the priestess — with her hair flowing — thunders from her lips thrice a hundred gods’ [names]: Erebus and Chaos, triform Hecate, [and] the three faces of virgin Diana.\n(The priestess who invokes “ter centum” deities may be calling three hundred gods, 100 gods three times, or “hundreds of” or “a great many,” and some of the named gods have tri-part symbolism. Threes have special significance in myth, folklore and ritual; see: Lease, Emory B., The Number Three, Mysterious, Mystic, Magic. Classical Philology, Jan., 1919, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 56-73.)",
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