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Mentiri vis causa mea? ego vero cupide et libenter mentiar tua causa; et si quando me vis perjurare, ut paululum tu compendii facias, paratum fore scito.
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* Vel procax juvencula maritum nimis cupide appeteret: [813] 1
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996
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[11] "Vel procax juvencula maritum nimis cupide appeteret."
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996
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He represents him as from his youth up a genuine enthusiast for literature: ‘Eloquentiam studiaque liberalia (i.e. grammatice and rhetoric) ab aetate prima et cupide et laboriosissime exercuit.
Introduction 1912
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Phrygium ut nemus citato cupide pede tetigit, adiitque opaca siluis redimita loca deae, stimulatus ibi furenti rabie, uagus animis, deuolsit ilei acuto sibi pondera silice.
Attis 1912
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Quare fateor me scholas Academicas cupide requirere, ut inspectantibus vobis, calamistratos istos milites, in solem et pulverem e suis umbraculis evocatos, non meis viribus, qui cum vestris centesima parte non sum conferendus, sed valentissima causa et certissima veritate debilitem.
Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name of the Faith and Presented to the Illustrious Members of Our Universities Edmund Campion 1560
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You cannot sincerely and honestly condemn Marwan's murder while at the same time remaining irretrievably silent and cupide on the horrific treatment meted out to religious minorities all over the Islamic world every single day.
Opinion Source: Delivering summaries of editorial and op-ed pieces from major papers by email. 2009
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Qui cupide sollemnia laeta exspe - ctat, ei dies antecedens tarde de - cedere videtur.
P. Ovidii Nasonis Fastorum libri VI. Ovid, Publius Ovidius Naso, Gottlieb Erdmann Gierig 1812
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Cujus sermone ita tunc cupide tenebar, quasi jam divinarem, id quod evenit, illo exstincto fore unde discerem neminem "(Cicero, _De Senectute_).
The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 Stephen Lucius Gwynn 1907
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/iunc qua caufa Deosper totutn Terrarum orbem agnofcifecit, gf urbfs aris impievit, fif folemia inflituit facra qme nunc ubique in ufufunty N o Nam cupide conculcatur nimls ante metutum.
T. Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex Titus Lucretius Carus , Thomas Creech , George Gordon Byron Byron 1770
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