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  • I hope and pray we get together and take the reins from the greedy, selfish CEO types that have gotten us to this inglorius point.

    Schneider: The generation gap persists 2008

  • Caesareum et queruli quondam uice functus amici, 30 nunc conuiua leuis monstrataque reddere uerba tam facilis! quo tu, Melior dilecte, recluso numquam solus eras. at non inglorius umbris mittitur: Assyrio cineres adolentur amomo et tenues Arabum respirant gramine plumae35

    On the Death of a Favourite Parrot 1912

  • Sed cum, uti paulo ante disserui, plures gentes esse necesse sit ad quas unius fama hominis nequeat peruenire, fit ut quem tu aestimas esse gloriosum, pro maxima parte terrarum uideatur inglorius.

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

  • I doubt if he meant it, any more than Virgil meant his "_flumina amem silvasque inglorius_."

    Wandering Heath Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • _Flumina amem silvasque inglorius_, and his pathetic envy of those

    The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance Paul Elmer More 1900

  • He started off with his treatise on Avarice, (a subject of which he was a very good judge): composition after composition then issued rapidly from his pen; they were no longer anonymous; they were attended by fame; he thus made ample amends for the "inglorius labor", as he styles it himself (An. IV, 32), of the An.als.

    Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century John Wilson Ross 1852

  • This prince died after an unhappy and inglorius reign of 35 years.

    Diary and Notes 1819

  • Rura mihi, et rigui placeant in vaUibus amncs: flumina amem, filvasque, inglorius.

    P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796

  • Bifttonicum ftridcs, quid enim? omnia non licet uni Non fperaffe uni licet omnia, mi Talis ainpla Merges, 8c mihi grande decus (iim ignotus in sevum Tumr licet, externo penitufque inglorius orbi)

    The Works of the English Poets.: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical 1779

  • 32, 'Nobis in arto et inglorius labor,' must not be taken too seriously.

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

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