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Defect of fame is called infamia facti when one perpetrates any crime which forfeits the good opinion of the community.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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It is called infamia juris when the law declares one to be infamous either ipso facto or after judicial sentence.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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In 1933 Borges gained an editorial appointment at the literary supplement of the newspaper Crítica, where he first published the pieces later collected as the Historia universal de la infamia (A Universal History of Infamy).
jorge luis borges | the destiny of borges « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008
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Et si in hoc parum a praeclara infamia stultitiaque abero, vincit tamen amor veritatis.
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Tu pete lecticas — — — many brave and worthy men have trespassed in this kind, multos foras claros domestica haec destruxit infamia, and many noble senators and soldiers (as [6054] Pliny notes) have lost their honour, in being uxorii, so sottishly overruled by their wives; and therefore Cato in Plutarch made a bitter jest on his fellow-citizens, the Romans, we govern all the world abroad, and our wives at home rule us.
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Voluptatem severissime contemnunt, in dolore sunt molliores, gloriam negligunt, franguntur infamia.
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Ed.: Pars Prima, vii -- under "De is qui notantur infamia."
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To the latter office a certain _infamia_ was attached.
The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order Marcus Tullius Cicero
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That _mendax_ _infamia_ from the press, which daily coins false facts and false motives?
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It is twofold in species, infamy of law (infamia juris) and infamy of fact (infamia facti).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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