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  • As for any particular commemorations, I call to mind what Cicero said when he gave general thanks, Difficile non aliquem, ingratum quenquam praeterire.

    The Advancement of Learning 2003

  • Sed memoria mea ingenti virtute, diversis moribus fuere viri duo, M. Cato et G. Caesar; quos quoniam res obtulerat, silentio praeterire non fuit consilium, quin [305] utriusque naturam et mores, quantum ingenio possem, aperirem.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • Tum pistores scrofipasci, qui alunt furfuribus sues, quarum odore praeterire nemo pistrinum potest: eorum si quoiusquam scrofam in publico conspexero, ex ipsis dominis meis pugnis exculcabo furfures.

    Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

  • Quisquis Flaminiam teris, uiator, noli nobile praeterire marmor.

    In Memoriam Martial 1912

  • Praetereo, libet enim praeterire communia, sumptas in adulescentia negatas senibus dignitates; ad singularem felicitatis tuae cumulum uenire delectat.

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • Cuius dicti nouitate percussus harum coniunctionum quae ex duabus naturis uel in duabus consisterent differentias inquirebam, multum scilicet referre ratus nec inerti neglegentia praetereundum, quod episcopus scriptor epistolae tamquam ualde necessarium praeterire noluisset.

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • In the Greek the same word parerchesthai is used in both cases, but Hilary uses transire in the first, praeterire in the second instance.

    NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus 1898

  • Qui docent, 'Deum neminem ex mera justa sua voluntate decrevisse in lapsu Adae et in communi peccati et damnationis statu relinquere, aut in gratiae ad fidem et conversionem necessariae communicatione praeterire.'

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • [14] "Tantam enim mansuetudinem, tam inusitatam inauditamque clementiam, tantum in summâ potestate rerum omnium modum, tam denique incredibilem sapientiam ac paene divinam tacitus nullo modo praeterire possum."

    Caesar: a Sketch James Anthony Froude 1856

  • As for any particular commemorations, I call to mind what Cicero said when he gave general thanks, Difficile non aliquem, ingratum quenquam praeterire.

    The Advancement of Learning Francis Bacon 1593

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