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Upon learning this from what we former intelligence officers used to call an "A-1 source" (completely reliable with excellent access to the information), the thought that came to me in the face of such chutzpah was from Cicero's livid oration against the Roman usurper Cataline: "Quousque, tandem, abutere, Catalina, patientia nostra!" — or "How long, at last, O Cataline, will you abuse our patience!"
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Patience or patientia in the Latin is formed from the same root as pati which means ‘to suffer’.
The Life of Virtue - Patience Catholic Mom of 10 2009
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“Quousque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra”
“Quousque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra” FIDO The Dog 2008
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The Lone Voice: “Quousque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra”
“Quousque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra” FIDO The Dog 2008
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“Quousque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra”
Archive 2008-12-01 FIDO The Dog 2008
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‘Hæc virtus vidua est, quam non patientia firmat.’
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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I will conclude like a pedant, Levius fit patientia quicquid corrigere est nefas.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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Tunc necessaria fuit patientia, quia apud Sartach, non patebat nobis ingressus; nec aliquis erat, qui nobis exhiberet iusticiam.
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Geduld, patientia, patience, especially the Spanish sufrimiento, is strongly connected with the notion of suffering.
Religion 2004
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Tunc necessaria fuit patientia, quia apud Sartach, non patebat nobis ingressus; nec aliquis erat, qui nobis exhiberet iusticiam.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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