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Yet in most things wavering, irresolute, unable to deliberate, through fear, faciunt, et mox facti poenitent (Areteus) avari, et paulo post prodigi.
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Sunt morosi anxii, et iracundi et difficiles senes, si quaerimus, etiam avari, Tull. de senectute.
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Animi forte accidens quo quis rem habere nimia aviditate concupiscit, ut ludos venatores, aurum et opes avari.
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Imprimis vero appetitus, seu concupiscentia nimia rei alicujus, honestae vel inhonestae, phantasiam laedunt; unde multi ambitiosi, philauti, irati, avari, insani, &c. Felix Plater, l. 3. de mentis alien.
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These the avari - cious dockmaster eagerly accepted in payment.
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And like Adam he is neither avari - cious, guileful, cruel, ambitious, or insolent.
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'Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas atque metus omnes et inexorabile fatum subiecit pedibus strepitumque Acherontis avari.'
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Megadorus a sorore suasus ducere uxorem avari gnatam deposcit sibi.
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But in answer we hear only the flapping of the folds of Isis, "strepitumque Acherontis avari."
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"Metus omnes, et inexorabile fatum, ... strepitumque Acherontis avari."
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