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Quindi, se vuoi evitare collisioni di corpi celesti con la Terra, tutto ciò che hai da fare e fingere di suonare la chitarra.
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Postea prudentiores didicere fortunam suam quemque fingere.
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In the Middle Ages the principal term for form A was figura (from the Latin fingere, to shape).
Dictionary of the History of Ideas W. TATARKIEWICZ 1968
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Eoo quotiens surgit ab orbe dies; tota (licet quaeras) hoc me non fingere dicet officii testis Pontica terra mei.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Tantum illud vereor, ne quos privata amicitia Jugurthae parum cognita transversos agat, quos ego audio maxima ope niti, ambire, fatigare [104] vos singulos, ne quid de absente incognita causa statuatis, fingere me verba et fugam simulare, cui licuerit in regno manere.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Hercle vero, Libane, nunc te meliust expergiscier atque argento comparando fingere fallaciam.
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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QVIS potis est dignum pollenti pectore carmen condere pro rerum maiestate hisque repertis? quisue ualet uerbis tantum qui fingere laudes pro meritis eius possit qui talia nobis pectore parta suo quaesitaque praemia liquit?
The World's Conquerors Lucretius 1912
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Tutemet a nobis iam quouis tempore uatum terriloquis uictus dictis desciscere quaeres. quippe etenim quam multa tibi iam fingere possunt somnia quae uitae rationes uertere possint fortunasque tuas omnis turbare timore!
Exordium Lucretius 1912
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Nam tres homines neque genere neque specie sed suis accidentibus distant; nam uel si animo cuncta ab his accidentia separemus, tamen locus cunctis diuersus est quem unum fingere nullo modo possumus; duo enim corpora unum locum non obtinebunt, qui est accidens.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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Ceterum in politia et oeconomia satis est legum, quibus vexamur, ut non sit opus praeter has molestias fingere alias quam miserrimas [necessarias].
Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1894
fbharjo commented on the word fingere
latin root of 'fiction'?
October 6, 2011
bilby commented on the word fingere
Certainly the root of feint, via French feindre.
October 6, 2011