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[3522] Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem — and as [3523] he said in an epigram to his wife,
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Feruntur et a puero et ab adulescentulo quaedam scripta, ut Laudes Herculis, tragoedia Oedipus, item Dicta Collectanea: quos omnes libellos vetuit Augustus publicari, in epistula quam brevem admodum ac simplicem ad Pompeium Macrum, cui ordinandas bibliothecas delegaverat, misit. '
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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Fiat. abscedite hinc: nos concedamus huc. sed brevem orationem incipisse.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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Ubi nōn longē āfuērunt, rapuērunt agricolam, quī eīs viam brevem et facilem dēmōnstrāvit.
Latin for Beginners Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge 1900
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_Quo pacto paedagogi suos pueros brevem confitendi rationem simplicissime docere debeant.
Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1894
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Cum NATHANAELE, illorum filio, qui natus MDCCXII, cum vires et animi et corporis multa pollicerentur, anno MDCCXXXVII, vitam brevem pia morte finivit.
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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Epicurus, that a great sorrow is necessarily of short duration, a prolonged sorrow necessarily light: "Quod autem magnum dolorem brevem longinquum levem esse dicitis, id non intelligo quale sit, video enim et magnos et eosdem bene longinquos dolores."
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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Ut quam brevem esset habiturus praescire videretur.
Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson Hester Lynch Piozzi 1781
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Habet autem prxfatiunculam Rivii brevem, & in ea breviorem etiam profeffionem de opera a fe navata.
C. Cornelii Taciti opera omnia Cornelius Tacitus , Henry Homer , Melchior Freinsheim 1790
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Habet autem praefatiunculam Rivii brevem, & in ea breviorem etiam profeffioncm de opera a fe navata.
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