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_Ep_ I xvii 35 'principibus placuisse uiris non ultima laus est', _Cons ad Liuiam_ 44 'ultima sit laudes inter ut illa tuas', Vell Pat I 11 1, and the other instances cited by _OLD ultimus_ 9.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Sciat etiam Ciceroni placuisse _aiio Maiiam_ que geminata I scribere.
The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it Frances Ellen Lord
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'Da veniam subitis: non displicuisse meretur, festinat, Caesar, qui placuisse tibi.'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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Hor _Ep_ I xvii 35 '_principibus_ placuisse _uiris_ non ultima laus est'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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[573] The infinitive _placuisse_ depends on _scilicet_, which is here quite the same as _scire licet_, as in chaps. 4 and 113.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Nam ut pauca quae ratio ualet humana de diuina profunditate perstringam, de hoc quem tu iustissimum et aequi seruantissimum putas omnia scienti prouidentiae diuersum uidetur; et uictricem quidem causam dis, uictam uero Catoni placuisse familiaris noster
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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For this I should like to express my most ardent and most sincere gratitude as a Pole to you gentlemen, the members of the Swedish Academy, and I conclude by borrowing the words of Horace: «Principibus placuisse non ultima laus est».
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Ammianus, (displicuisse, instead of placuisse,) we may consider it as
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Quisquid amas cupias non placuisse nimis -- We should moderate our affection for those things which we are tempted to love inordinately.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy) 1721
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Si Principibus probis, doctis, ac sapientibus placuisse, in minimi laude ponendnm non est, hoc praesertim nomine hie venerandoa Antistes, idem et multilun amandiis Aulicus celebraretur; quippe summs sapientise, mine comitatis opinione fretus et delectatns, cdsissimus GeorgiusII.
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