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_Erat autem non solum elegans Poeta, & Rhetor disertus, verum etiam
The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley
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_Calvus diu cum Cicerone iniquissimam litem de principatu eloquentiæ habuit; et usque eò violentus accusator et concitatus fuit, ut in media actione ejus surgeret Vatinius reus, et exclamaret, Rogo vos, judices, si iste disertus est, ideo me damnari oportet?
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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Vatinius reus et exclamaret: Rogo vos, iudices, num si iste disertus est, ideo me damnari oportet?
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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Hunc in omnibus stupris, hunc in fanorum expilationibus, hunc in impuris conviviis principera adhibebat; tantamque habebat morum similitudo conjuncnorum atque concordiam, ut Apronius, qui aliis inhumanus ac barbarus, isti uni commodus ac disertus videretur; ut quem omnes odissent neque videre vellent sine eo iste esse non posset; ut quum alii ne conviviis quidem iisdem quibus Apronius, hic iisdem etiam poculis uteretur, postremo, ut, odor
Life of Cicero Volume One Anthony Trollope 1848
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Judices_, "-- Mr. Hastings might well have said, --" _si iste disertus est, ideo me damnari oportet?
Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 02 Thomas Moore 1815
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Italy, improving his time to his great accomplishment, in learning the Languages and Arts; Erat autem non solum elegans Poeta, & Rhetor disertus, verum etiam Mathematicus expertus, Philosophus acutus,
The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698 1687
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STUMius Orator, Ita in declamationibus disertus, ut, teste Trebellio Pollione, eius controversiae Quintiliano dicantur insertae.
Compediaria in Latium via; sive, Praestantiourum linguae Latinae scriptorum notitia ad usum Hispanae ivventutis González, Casto 1792
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_ 167, 'L. Afranius poeta, homo perargutus, in fabulis quidem etiam ut scitis disertus.'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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1, 17, 'Non uti summus philosophus nec rhetor disertus nec grammaticus summis rationibus artis exercitatus, sed ut architectus his litteris imbutus haec nisus sum scribere.'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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