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(Toronto, 1986), 62: Contigit ergo domum puerum de more reuersum/utque solent pueri uisa referre domi,/simplicitas pueri mentiri nescia ueri/simplicitatis opus in sua dampna refert.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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In Latin. magnae clunes mihi placent, nec possum de hac re mentiri.
Boing Boing: October 5, 2003 - October 11, 2003 Archives 2003
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Illus ætatis pueri at mentiri et verum iniqui, at confiteri et negare jam possum.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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Bene prospere hoc hodie operis processit mihi: amovi a foribus maximam molestiam, patri ut liceret tuto illam amplexarier. iam ille illuc ad erum cum Amphitruonem advenerit, narrabit servom hinc sese a foribus Sosiam amovisse; ille adeo illum mentiri sibi credet, neque credet huc profectum, ut iusserat.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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Si quis, pro mortuis sollicitus, apud Deum gratiam eis implorat aut precatur, non damno; sed tempus de hoc definire (septennium pro peccato mortali), et propter quaestum mentiri, non humanum est, sed diabolicum.
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Præceptorum ad filios_ (_Opera_, tom.i. p. 481), "Nolite unquam mentiri, sed circumvenire [circumvenite?]."
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"Quid Romæ faciam?" he upbraidingly asks in one of his title-pages, "mentiri nescio."
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Tacitus, in describing the Corsicans, gives us three of the principal ingredients in the character of Napoleon, when he says, [16] "Ulcisci, prima lex est, altera, mentiri, tertia, negare Deos."
Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes. Archibald Alison 1829
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"No; but he is one of our first chemists; and this tramping philosopher of yours -- this Dousterswivel -- is, I have a notion, one, of those learned adventurers described by Kirchner, _Artem habent sine arte, partem sine parte, quorum medium est mentiri, vita eorum mendicatum ire; _ that is to say, Miss Wardour" --
The Antiquary — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801
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"No; but he is one of our first chemists; and this tramping philosopher of yours -- this Dousterswivel -- is, I have a notion, one, of those learned adventurers described by Kirchner, _Artem habent sine arte, partem sine parte, quorum medium est mentiri, vita eorum mendicatum ire; _ that is to say, Miss Wardour" --
The Antiquary — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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