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  • Et Noueritis, vt praedixi, me pauca eorum vidisse, quæ in terris sunt mirabilium, sed nec hic scripsisse centessimam partem eorum quæ vidi, quod nec omnia memoriæ commendare potui, et de commendatis multa subticui, proptèr modestiam, quam decet omnibus actibus addi.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Et Noueritis, vt praedixi, me pauca eorum vidisse, qu� in terris sunt mirabilium, sed nec hic scripsisse centessimam partem eorum qu� vidi, quod nec omnia memori� commendare potui, et de commendatis multa subticui, propt鑢 modestiam, quam decet omnibus actibus addi.

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

  • Accusative; as, -- cōgō tē hōc facere, _I compel you to do this_ (_cf. _ tē hōc cōgō); docuī tē contentum esse, _I taught you to be content_ (_cf. _ tē modestiam docuī, _I taught you temperance_).

    New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett

  • 'Sed neque te fas est præterire, _Fairfaxi_, in quo cum summa fortitudine summam modestiam, summam vitæ sanctitatem, & natura & divinus favor conjunxit: Tu harum in partem laudum evocandus tuo jure ac merito es; quanquam in illo nunc tuo secessu, quantus olim Literni

    Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various

  • L. Sulla, armis recepta re publica, bonis initiis malos eventus habuit, [69] rapere omnes, trahere, domum alius, alius agros cupere, neque modum neque modestiam victores habere, foeda crudeliaque in civibus [70] facinora facere.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • Longe itaque a templis et oratoriis Christianorum repellendus, est omnis vestium luxus, omnis superbia, et omnia, quae humilitatem, disciplinam et modestiam dedecent christianam.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Longe itaque a templis et oratoriis Christianorum repellendus, est omnis vestium luxus, omnis superbia, et omnia, quae humilitatem, disciplinam et modestiam dedecent christianam.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Thus he says immediately afterward, "neque modum neque modestiam _victores_ habere."

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

  • I have translated _modestiam, discretion_, which seems to be the proper meaning of the word.

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

  • [243] Such I know to be his character, such his discretion -- _Eos mores, eam modestiam viri cognovi_.

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

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