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For atria compare Her XVI 185-86 'occurrent denso tibi Troades agmine matres, / nec capient Phrygias atria nostra nurus'.

From The Last Poems of Ovid by Akrigg, Mark Bear

In Akenside's Pleasures of Imagination we find:—                      Hence, finally by night,      The village matres, round the blazing hearth      Suspend the infant audience with their tales,      Breathing astonishment.

From A Study of Fairy Tales by Kready, Laura F.

The Latin of the entire passage is: Qui non accipiat centies tantum, nunc in tempore hoc: domos, et fratres, et sorores, et matres, et filios, et agros, cum persecutionibus, et in sæculo futuro vitam æternam.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 25 of 55 1635-36 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander

Quarto: negat in conuituijs quemquam discumbentium à mensa surgere: sed matres familias singulis conuiuis quoties opus fuerit matellas porrigere.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 by Hakluyt, Richard

"You look pale, child!" cries mamma, anxious, like all pavidae matres.

From The Virginians by Thackeray, William Makepeace