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• One of the oldest lines of modern English verse is the so-called septenary (septenarius), having had a nearly continuous tradition from the twelfth-century Poema Morale...
• Hence, deriving the suggestion from the apparent septenary rest in nature, they taught that
• After the same manner a man is completed in the second septenary of years, and is capable of learning what is good and evil, and of discipline therein.
• Heraclitus and the Stoics say, that men begin their completeness when the second septenary of years begins, about which time the seminal serum is emitted.