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Sed non placebat ei, quia non ferebamos aliquem pannum pretiosum.
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Sed non placebat ei, quia non ferebamos aliquem pannum pretiosum.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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[249] The text here is a typical example of Augustine's love of wordplay and assonance, as a conscious literary device: tuae caritati me dedere quam meae cupiditati cedere; sed illud placebat et vincebat, hoc libebat et vinciebat.
Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler 345-430 1955
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Neque illi res neque consilium aut quisquam hominum satis placebat; itinera praefectosque in dies mutare, modo adversum hostes, interdum in solitudines pergere, saepe in fuga ac post paulo in armis spem habere, dubitare, virtuti an fidei popularium minus crederet; ita quocunque intenderat, res adversae erant.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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_Cum re_, 'along with my fortune', seems somewhat out of place; but Burman pointed out that _consilium et res_ seems to have been a Latin phrase, citing Sallust _Iug_ 74 'neque illi _res neque consilium_ aut quisquam hominum satis placebat' and Ter
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Sed placebat propter sola vitia, et ad ea se quisque dirigebat effingenda, quæ poterat.
A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Caius Cornelius Tacitus
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Tacitus manages to please the ear even when ending sentences with ugly polysyllabic words, as (taking the instances from the opening of his work): "suspectis sollicitis, adoptanti placebat" (I. 14);
Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century John Wilson Ross 1852
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Pifo, M. Craflb & Scri - bonia genitus, nobilis utrimque, vultu habituque moris antiqui, & sBftimatione refti feverus, dete - riiis interpretantibus triftior habebatur: ea pars, morum ejus, quo fufpeftior follicitii, adoptanti placebat.
C. Cornelii Taciti opera omnia. ... Cornelius Tacitus , Melchior Freinsheim 1790
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Pifo, M. CraflTo & Scri - bonia genitus, nobilis utrimque, vultu habituque moris antiqui, & aeftimatione reda feverus, dete - riiis interpretantibus triftior habebatur: ea pars morum ejus, quo fufpeftior follicitis, adoptanti placebat.
C. Cornelii Taciti opera omnia Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Cornelius Tacitus, Johann August Ernesti 1790
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Diceflfi qaia te laudat? putQ-mc id quoque effe caofae; fed tamen eti te, quam ad enm locum veni p val placebat cum fenfus ejus de republic fcribendi cura.
M. Tvllii Ciceronis Opera qvae svpersvnt omnia secvndvm optimae novissimasqve editiones ... 1786
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