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A peculiar colophon is added in the Basle edition; and after the words "Impressum in Utopia," a quondam possessor of the tract, probably its contemporary, has written with indignation, "Stulte mentiris!"
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At mentiris etiam: certo pedibus, non tunicis venis.
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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Motte had made regarding him was false, and that she was _mentiris impudentissime_, which two words he begged her counsel to translate for her, as it was not polite to tell her so in French.
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds Charles Mackay 1851
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In this one instance Parson Lot fairly lost his temper, and answered, "as was answered to the Jesuit of old -- _mentiris impudentissime_."
Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography Charles Kingsley 1847
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