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Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri and consequently had at all times the invaluable privilege of abusing what was being done, whether by one side or by the other.
The Way We Live Now 2004
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I may not always think on various points exactly as he does, but I am not more forward than he is to say with Horace, — “Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri.”
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_, 69: "Circa deos ac religiones neglegentior, quippe addictus mathematicae, plenusque persuasionis cuncta fato agi."
The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism Franz Cumont
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'Nullius addictus iurare in verba magistri, quo me cumque rapit tempestas, deferor hospes.'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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"Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri," he was an eclectic in politics, -- acknowledged no leader, had himself no followers.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Various
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_Prasinæ factioni ita addictus et deditus, ut cœnaret in stabulo assidue et maneret.
A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Caius Cornelius Tacitus
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Agamemnon cannot restrain himself and even bursts into verse in the course of this disquisition on the decadence of oratory: artis severae si quis ambit effectus mentemque magnis applicat, prius mores frugalitatis lege poliat exacta. nec curet alto regiam trucem vultu cliensve cenas impotentium captet nec perditis addictus obruat vino mentis calorem, neve plausor in scaenam sedeat redemptus histrionis ad rictus. sed sive armigerae rident Tritonidis arces, seu Lacedaemonio tellus habitata colono
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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He is _nullius addictus iurare in verba magistri_, if ever man was; he is individualist to the core.
Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01 of Samosata Lucian 1895
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[21] _Nullius addictus iurare in verba magistri_, Ep.I. i.
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879
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[1] To one who knows what frightful cruelty and oppression may lie in simple legal phrases, the indignant sentence in which Walsingham tells his death is the truest comment on the scene: "Non tam villanorum prædictæ villæ de Bury, suorum adversariorum, sed propriorum servorum et nativorum arbitrio simul et judicio addictus morti."
Stray Studies from England and Italy John Richard Greene 1860
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