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Iecur fons venarum, the liver as the source of the veins, remained through the centuries the watchword of the Galenic physiology.

From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by Livingstone, R.W.

“I think she is the fons et origo of all that has occurred,” said the friar.

From The Great Mogul by Tracy, Louis

By the partisans of the Empire, on the other hand, the Donation was looked upon as the fons et origo malorum, and Constantine was regarded as having, in his new-born zeal, betrayed his imperial trust.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various

And consideration is something more than courtesy, for the latter springs from it as both are rooted in the sympathy which is the origo et fons of comradeship.

From Child Versus Parent Some Chapters on the Irrepressible Conflict in the Home by Wise, Stephen

And recognising Locke to be the fons et origo malorum, he subjected his theory of human knowledge to a close analysis, and exposed it as being fallacious.

From Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson by Hardwick, John Charlton