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  • Totam noctem bene et pudice nemini molestus dormiendo transegit; mane autem quum nullius conscius facinoris sibi esset, et inertiae puderet, audisse se dicebat eum dolore calculi solere eam conflictari.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • He desires to distinguish himself among his fellow-creatures; and, alicui negotio intentus, prreclari facinoris, aut artis bonae, faman quaerit.

    Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

  • Ceterum fama tanti facinoris per omnem Africam brevi divulgatur;

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • Quid autem acerbum aut nimis grave est in homines tanti facinoris convictos?

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • Verum enimvero [20] is demum mihi vivere atque frui anima videtur, qui aliquo negotio intentus [21] praeclari facinoris aut artis bonae famam quaerit.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • Eo cum delectis equitibus noctu pergit et jam egredientibus Romanis in porta pugnam facit; simul magna voce Siccenses hortatur, uti cohortes ab tergo circumveniant; fortunam illis praeclari facinoris casum dare; si id fecerint, postea sese in regno, illos in libertate sine metu aetatem acturos.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • Fuere ea tempestate qui dicerent, Catilinam, oratione habita, quum ad jusjurandum populares [126] sceleris sui adigeret, humani corporis sanguinem vino permixtum in pateris circumtulisse; inde quum post execrationem omnes degustavissent, sicuti in sollemnibus sacris fieri consuevit, aperuisse consilium suum, atque eo dictitare [127] fecisse, quo inter se magis fidi forent, alius alii tanti facinoris conscii.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • Et cuius umquam facinoris manifesta confessio ita iudices habuit in seueritate concordes ut non aliquos uel ipse ingenii error humani uel fortunae condicio cunctis mortalibus incerta submitteret?

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • Peter Carew's retinue increaseth in France by the confluence of such English _qui potius alicujus præclari facinoris quam artis bonæ famam quærunt_; and they be so entreated there as it cannot be otherwise conjectured but that they practise with

    The Reign of Mary Tudor James Anthony Froude 1856

  • Afterwards, in the same king's reign it was raised to 12d. "non parcatur alicui furi ultra 12 denarios, et ultra 12 annos nato-ut occidemus illum et capiamus omne quod possidet, et imprimis sumamus rei furto ablatae pretium ab haerede, ac dividatur postea reliquum in duas partes, una pars uxori, si munda, et facinoris conscia non sit; et residuum in duo, dimidium capiat rex, dimidium societas."

    Autobiography 1821

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