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Longo experimento a se observatum esse, melancholicos sine offensa egregie curandos valere.
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_Subtilis_ means 'clean and elegant in style'; compare Cic _De or_ I 180 'oratione maxime limatus atque _subtilis_' and _Brutus_ 35 'tum fuit Lysias ... egregie
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Sirleto writes of him that he was among the foremost workers in the reform (cum primis egregie laboravit), and
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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Idem ut secundum legem ejus per triumviros ager populo viritim divideretur egregie censuit.
A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885
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Verum deluduntur a Satana istaec mulieres hoc casu egregie nec revera rimulas istas penetrant, sed solummodo daemon praecedens latenter aperit et claudit januas vel fenestras corporis earum capaces, per quas eas intromittit quae putant se formam animalculi parvi, mustelae, catti, locustae, et aliorum induisse.
Among My Books First Series James Russell Lowell 1855
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It was he who in Greek assisted me to laudabilis et quidem egregie.
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In one of his letters, he styles her "egregie doctam;" and in another he remarks, "Regina non tantum in sexus miraculum literata est; nec minus pietate suspicienda, quam eruditione."
The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 2 William Hickling Prescott 1827
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Geographia oryctologica quam simpliciter Geognosiam vel Geologiam dicunt, virque acutissimus Wernerus egregie digessit; Geographia zoologica, cujus doctrinae fundamenta Zimmermannus et Treviranus jecerunt; et Geographic plantarum quam aequales nostri diu intactam reliquerunt.
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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Of him the Bollandists say that he was very austere and harsh to his subjects, notwithstanding his great learning: "homini egregie docto ac rebus gestis claro, sed in subditos, ut ex historia Societatis Jesu liquet, valde immiti"
The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus of Avila Teresa 1548
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Aut egregie falloTf out is vir est unusy cum quo nemo sit hac tempes 'tate conferendus, vel integritate vita, vel erudi* tione, vel animi magnitudineJ'
Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of the Seventeenth ... 1813
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