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For my part, as Sallust said of Carthage, praestat silere, quam pauca dicere; I have said, yet one thing I will add, that this kind of physic is very moderately and advisedly to be used, upon good occasion, when the former of diet will not take place.
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Magna urbis utilitas cum perennes fontes muris includuntur, quod si natura non praestat, effondiendi,
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Mori praestat quam superstitiose sanari, Disquis.mag. l.
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Probus vir et Philosophus magis praestat inter alios homines, quam rex inclitus inter plebeios.
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Hinc deinde reuertentes, cum choris, et resonantia Musicorum, filius paratum praestat omnibus conuiuium, in cuius fine pro extremo ferculo, tradit singulis particulam, de patris capite summa cum devotione.
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Hinc deinde reuertentes, cum choris, et resonantia Musicorum, filius paratum praestat omnibus conuiuium, in cuius fine pro extremo ferculo, tradit singulis particulam, de patris capite summa cum devotione.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Quos ego --, sed praestat motos componere fluctus.
Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker. Marcus Tullius Cicero
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'Etiam qui res magnas manu saepe gessit gloriose, cuius facta viva nunc vigent, qui apud gentes solus praestat, eum suus pater cum palliod unod ab amica abduxit.'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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Nonne emori per virtutem praestat quam vitam miseram atque inhonestam, ubi alienae superbiae ludibrio fueris, per dedecus amittere?
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Verbs Impersonal only in Special Senses. cōnstat cōnstāre cōnstitit _it is evident_ praestat praestāre praestitit _it is better_ juvat juvāre jūvit _it delights_ appāret appārēre appāruit _it appears_ placet placēre placuit _it pleases_
New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett
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