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All manner of civility, decency, compliment and good behaviour, plus solis et leporis, polite graces and merry conceits.
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Homer: Et canis in somnis leporis vestigia latrat: as a dog dreams of a hare, so do men on such subjects they thought on last.
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Si principibus venatio leporis non sit inhonesta, nescio quomodo piscatio cyprinorum videri debeat pudenda.
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Recipe sanguinem leporis, et ceram virgineam, et fac candelam, et illumina.
Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc James Anthony Froude 1856
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Erat enim, ut scitis, exemplum prudentiae ac fortitudinis: summae in re domesticâ continentiae: eximiae in publicâ dignitatis: humanitatis praetereà, ac leporis admirabilis.
The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 3 William Hickling Prescott 1827
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It is difficult to collect the critic's summary opinion upon Hearne's editorial labours; but he concludes thus: "Quia autem leporis est mortuis insultare leonibus, cineres celeberrimi hujus et olim mihi amicissimi viri turbare, neutiquam in animum inducere possum," p. xlvii.
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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E T R V R I A. abest, sapplet falmen, vdaquila, quae* in nonnidlis stationis impatiens, serpentis vel leporis yenatoi Tacat capto ab Agri - gentinortan et Locrensium aquila exem - plo.
Doctrina nvmorvm vetervm conscripta a Josepho Eckhel .. Joseph Hilarius von Eckhel, Anton von Steinbüchel, Aubin Louis Millin, Emerich Thomas Hohler 1792
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t ME i eahibentur mimi quindeciro * r - ff 9 cafdem habent potiores figu -, leporis videlicet, et in X bi - un f addita infcr. mezeanian,
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