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Examples
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So also Kelitizein = peccare superne or equum agitare supernum of Horace.
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Age poenitentiam dum sanus es; sic agens, dico tibi quod securus es, quod poenitentiam egisti eo tempore quo peccare potuisti.
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Nonne satis pro te vulneratus sum? nonne satis pro te afflictus sum? desine amplius peccare. [quia] magis aggrauat vulnus peccati [quam] vulnus lateris mei.
The Conuercyon of swerers (The Conversion of Swearers) Stephen Hawes
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He was better on the defensive than the aggressive, and hence, _bis peccare in bello non licet_.
"Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show Sam R. Watkins
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Then the posse non peccare would have resulted on man's part in the non posse peccare, and this state would have received fuller confirmation in his physical being by the use of the tree of life, the eating of whose fruit would have communicated to those using it in faith rare benefits even for the body.
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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His miserable passion was degraded by its brevity; how could he see this womans disgrace for seven long years, and never pluck up heart either to share her shame or peccare fortiter?
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[52] Si scirem deos ignoscituros et homines ignoscituros, adhuc peccare dedignarer.
The Following of Christ. c. 1300-1361 1910
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* Si scirem deos ignoscituros et homines ignoscituros, adhuc peccare dedignarer.
The Following of Christ. c. 1300-1361 1910
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Multum interest utrum peccare quis nolit, aut nesciat: 53 There is a great difference, whether one have no will, or no wit to doe amisse.
Of the Institution and Education of Children. To the Ladie Diana of Foix, Countesse of Gurson. 1909
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But this I say, that the making of themes, as is usual at schools, helps not one jot towards it: for do but consider what it is, in making a theme, that a young lad is employed about; it is to make a speech on some Latin saying; as Omnia vincit amor; or Non licet in Bello bis peccare, &c.
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