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poplite

poples, the ham, hollow of the knee, hough

  1. …nec usum alium quinque desiderant. tuus autem deus non digito uno redundat sed capite collo cervicibus lateribus alvo tergo poplitibus manibus pedibus feminibus cruribus. si ut inmortalis sit, quid haec ad vitam membra pertinent, quid ipsa facies…

    M. Tullius Cicero, de Natura Deorum

  2. …saliva, in frontem ab alio adflari ; si iaceat uva, verticem morsu alterius suspendi ; in cervicium dolore poplites fricar i aut cervicem in poplitum ; pedes in humo deponi, si nervi in his cruribusve tendantur in lectulo…

    Pliny the Elder, Natural History

  3. …leviter discreti ungulisque, non unguibus, similes, et pedes maiores priores, in posterioribus articuli breves. idem poplites intus flectit hominis modo, cetera animalia in diversum posterioribus pedibus quam prioribus. nam quae animal generant, genua…

    Pliny the Elder, Natural History

  4. …ira caedes. dulce et decorum est pro patria mori mors et fugacem persequitur virum nec parcit inbellis iuventae poplitibus timidoque tergo. Virtus, repulsae nescia sordidae, intaminatis fulget honoribus nec sumit aut ponit securis arbitrio popularis aurae…

    Horace, Carmina

  5. …ret, exhibens secum filium, quem in ipso flore adulescentiae debilitas dolenda damnauerat. Erat enim arescentibus neruis contracto poplite, cui per siccitatem cruris usus uestigii negabatur. Hunc Elafium prouincia tota subsequitur ; ueniunt sacerdotes, occurrit inscia…

    The Venerable Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum

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