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Examples
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[1939] O puer ut sis vitalis metuo, — — — How much I dread
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Yet Horace scruples not to say, in one of his moral pieces: “Nec metuo, ne dum futuo vir rure recurrat.”
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Nec porci diuina vnquam amarunt: quod sanè metuo ne nimis verè de hoc conuiciatore dicatur, id quod vel ex his vltimis duabus obiectionibus constare poterit.
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Nec porci diuina vnquam amarunt: quod san� metuo ne nimis ver� de hoc conuiciatore dicatur, id quod vel ex his vltimis duabus obiectionibus constare poterit.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The idiom is different from the _et pudet et_ construction seen at xv 29 'et pudet et metuo [' I am both embarrassed and afraid '] semperque eademque precari' and _Tr_ V vii 57-58 'et pudet et fateor [' I confess with embarrassment '], iam desuetudine longa/uix subeunt ipsi uerba Latina mihi'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Then he apologizes for making such constant requests: et pudet et metuo semperque eademque precari ne subeant animo taedia iusta tuo
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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[Footnote A: Actors might be whipped on occasion.] atque ego quoque etiam, qui Iovis sum filius, 30 contagione mei patris metuo malum. propterea pace advenio et pacem ad vos affero [5]: iustam rem et facilem esse oratam a vobis volo, nam iusta ab iustis iustus sum orator datus.
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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Pol metuo magis, ne Phoenix tuis factis fuam teque ad patrem esse mortuom renuntiem.
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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Vinctos nescio quos ait; non placet: metuo, in commune ne quam fraudem frausus sit.
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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Patiar, non metuo, ne quid mihi doleat quod ferias.
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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