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Dum contumelia vacant et festiva lenitate mordent, mediocres animi aegritudines sanari solent, &c. 3498.
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Inopia, contumelia et dispendium, &c. In love these vices are; suspicions.
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Melesippus, Diogenes of Sinope tells us that he got a beating from the drunken sons of the Athenians; but he adds that it was a matter of no importance. 52 And Seneca devotes the last few chapters of his De Constantia to a lengthy discussion on insult — contumelia; in order to show that a wise man will take no notice of it.
The Wisdom of Life 2004
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Qu� omnia venenatus hic pasquillus diserta contumelia, et ingeniosa calumnia, pulchr� amplificauit.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Quæ omnia venenatus hic pasquillus diserta contumelia, et ingeniosa calumnia, pulchrè amplificauit.
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Quam rem alii in superbiam vertebant, alii [431] bonum ingenium contumelia accensum esse, multi, quod jam parta victoria ex manibus eriperetur.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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[167] Qualiter unusquisque apud se lateat, contumelia illata probat.
The Following of Christ. c. 1300-1361 1910
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* Qualiter unusquisque apud se lateat, contumelia illata probat.
The Following of Christ. c. 1300-1361 1910
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Nam cum quidam adortus esset hominem contumeliis, qui non ad uerae uirtutis usum sed ad superbam gloriam falsum sibi philosophi nomen induerat, adiecissetque iam se sciturum, an ille philosophus esset, si quidem illatas iniurias leniter patienterque tolerasset, ille patientiam paulisper adsumpsit acceptaque contumelia uelut insultans: 'Iam tandem,' inquit, 'intellegis me esse philosophum?'
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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Nam cum vera fide non accedant, mortem Christi contumelia adficiunt, et ideo damnationem sibi ipsis edunt et bibunt.
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