improbare

Incoepi istam abusionem improbare, sed nihil valuit sibi, non enim poterat credere, quòd aliqua anima posset sine corpore manere.

The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

"Quin ejusdem hominis sit, qui improbos probet, probos improbare!"

The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Obesse non potest, quin ejusdem hominis sit, probos improbare, qui improbos probet."

The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 Marcus Tullius Cicero

How much better would the period have terminated if he had said, -- "_quin ejusdem hominis fit, qui improbos probet, probos improbare_!"

Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker. Marcus Tullius Cicero

Let us, for instance, take the following passage from the speech of Gracchus to the Censors; -- "_Abesse non potest, quin ejusdem hominis fit, probos improbare, qui improbos probet_;" "There is no possibility of doubting that the same person who is an enemy to virtue, must be a friend to vice."

Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker. Marcus Tullius Cicero