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Examples
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Yet many buy that, either out of liberal wishful thinking or rad-trad cupio dissolvi.
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In the first of these letters Seneca hopes his brother Paul is well: “Bene te valere, frater, cupio.”
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Per diversa loca vagor, nullo temporis momento quiesco, talis et talis esse cupio, illud atque illud habere desidero.
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Multa pr鎡ereo, vir amicissime, ipsumque hominem te audire cupio, qui mihi spospondit se in itinere Duisburgi te visurum.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Strabonis, Aristotelis, Plinij, Dionis et reliquorum, l鎡atus sum eo quod incidissem in hunc nuncium, qui tibi has literas tradit, quem tibi commendatum esse valde cupio, quique dudum Arusburgi h頲 ad Ossellam fluuium appulit.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Aug. 20, 1553: "Spero capitale saltem fore judicium _pœnæ vero atrocitatem remitti cupio_;" and on the 26th of October, he again wrote,
The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) Henry Martyn Baird
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But the two instances there cited from Augustan verse are examples of _nec ... et_ (_Fast_ V 530; _Tr_ V xii 63 'nec possum _et_ cupio non nullos ducere uersus').
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Suaviter, ut nunc est, inquam: & cupio omnia quæ vis.
An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744) Corbyn Morris
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Quin rem actutum edisseris? cupio malum nanciscier.
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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Quin si tergo res solvenda est, rapere cupio publicum: pernegabo atque obdurabo, periurabo denique.
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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