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Annus horribilis (pl. anni
horribiles) is a
Latin phrase that
means "horrible year". It is
complementary to
annus mirabilis,
which means "wonderful year"...
- ('sodomitical lusts', in one of Charlemagne's ordinances), or
peccatum illud horribile,
inter christianos non
nominandum ('that
horrible sin that
among Christians...
-
appearance of the sea-serpents who kill the
Trojan priest Laocoön and his sons
horribile dictu horrible to say cf.
mirabile dictu hortus in urbe A
garden in the...
- flatu,
scintillas sulphureas oculis,
sibilos stridentes ore,
rugitusque horribiles aduncatis dentibus, proferens;
quidquid incidisset in eum
ungulis et dente...
- Sempronia,
dating from 195 and 123 BC. The poet
Horace refers to the
horribile flagellum (horrible whip) in his Satires. Typically, the one to be punished...
- decree: "The
decree is
dreadful indeed, I confess. (latin. "Decretum
quidem horribile, fateor."; French. "Je
confesse que ce
decret nous doit epouvanter.")...
-
Jewish anti-Christian
polemics entitled Tela
Ignea Satanæ, sive
Arcani et
Horribiles Judæorum
Adversus Christum, Deum, et
Christianam Religionem Libri (Altdorf...
- "nameless and abominable" (recalling the
legal phrase peccatum illud horribile,
inter Christianos non nominandum, "that
horrible sin, not to be named...
- from
Jewish sources, with the
title Tela
Ignea Satanæ, sive
Arcani et
Horribiles Judæorum
Adversus Christum, Deum, et
Christianam Religionem Libri (Flaming...
-
appearance of the sea-serpents who kill the
Trojan priest Laocoön and his sons
horribile dictu horrible to say cf.
mirabile dictu hortus in urbe A
garden in the...
