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  • Novi ego qui ex subito hostium incursu et inopi nato timore quartanam depulerat.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Quod si tum quispiam bonus vir, misertus stoliditatis et inopi� mendicorum, vno illos filio leuauerit, eique propter Deum in alijs terris, aliquo tandem modo ben� prospexerit, num mendicus, qui alioqui cum filio, fame et paupertate moriturus, filium miserenti permittit et committit, filium istum suum minoris facit qu鄊 canem?

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Pierii tutela chori, quo praeside tuti non umquam uates inopi timuere senectae, quod si quis nostris precibus locus, et mea uota si mentem subiere tuam, memorabilis olim tu mihi Maecenas tereti cantabere uersu.

    Laus Pisonis Anonymous 1912

  • Gruter proposed to read _Ad hoc populo Romano inopi melius est visum_, etc., whence Cortius made _Ad hoc, populo Romano jam inopi visum_, etc.

    Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War 86 BC-34? BC Sallust 1844

  • But the Bipont editors, observing that _inopi_ was not quite consistent with _quaerere servos_, altered the passage to

    Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War 86 BC-34? BC Sallust 1844

  • Gerlach retains _inopi_, on the principle of "quo insolentius, eo verius," and it may, after all, be genuine.

    Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War 86 BC-34? BC Sallust 1844

  • [304] Besides, the Roman people, even from the very infancy -- The reading of this passage, before the edition of Cortius, was this: _Ad hoc, populo Romano jam a principio inopi melius visum amicos, quam servos, quaerere_.

    Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War 86 BC-34? BC Sallust 1844

  • Sed · tunc · externus · ut · Anco · Marcio · Priscus · Tarquinius · propter · temeratum · sanguinem · quod · Patre · Demaratho · Corinthio · natus · erat · et · Tarquiniensi · Matre · generoso · sed · inopi · ut · quæ · tali · marito · necesse · habuerit · succumbere · cum · domi · repelleretur.

    A Year's Journey through France and Part of Spain, Volume II (of 2) Philip Thicknesse 1755

  • Qiiippe benigniis erat. contra bic, ne. ptrodigus elTe Dicatuf, metuens, inopi dase ndit amico, j Frigus quo duramqiie ramem depellere poffit.

    The Works of Horace 1780

  • D. Pro lupiter populares i, ferte mifero atque innocenti auxilium i Subvenite inopi.jie. 4 otiofe nxmc iam illico hic confifle:

    Publii Terentii Afri Comoediae sex novissime recognitae cum selecta varietate lectionum et ... 1779

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