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See Cicero de Legg II I, sub init., where he speaks of the plane tree under which Socrates used to walk and of the tree at Delos, where Latona gave birth to Apollo.
From The Iliad by Pope, Alexander
Davila, bk. iii. in init., is more accurate than Castelnau, iii., c.
From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 by Baird, Henry Martyn
The Senate, except in Book v. ad init., appears in a rather unfavourable light, and so does the plebs.
From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by Middleton, George
I, 23; II, 1, ad init., note.159.Deira was the southern part of the province of Northumbria, the northern part being Bernicia.
From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, Cuthbert
American Board of Foreign Missions. ab init., ab initio=From the beginning. abl.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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