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  • But what sayeth the proverb, verbum sapienti — a word is more to him that hath wisdom than

    The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

  • Quantumlibet igitur sæviant mali, sapienti tamen corona non decidet, non arescet.

    Consolation of Philosophy 2007

  • But, indeed, the boy is a brave boy, and a quick boy, Sir Richard, but more forgetful than Lethe; and — sapienti loquor — it were well if he were away, for I shall never see him again without my head aching.

    Westward Ho! 2007

  • We know our lucubrations are read in high places, and respectfully insinuate verbum sapienti.

    The Newcomes 2006

  • Sophi�, id est, ineffabilis Dei sapienti� dedicato dicitur, et nobilissima vniuersarum mundi Ecclesiarum, tam in schemate artificiosi operis, qu鄊 in seruatis ibi sacrosanctis Relliquijs:

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Maiestatem V. sapienti� & prudenti�, omni鷐que ade� virtutnm heroicarum indies incrementa sumentem, ad summum imperij fastigium, summas ille regnorum, omni鷐que ade� rerum humanaram dispensator,

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • _Neque in summâ inopiâ levis esse senectus potest, ne sapienti quidem.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various

  • Quantumlibet igitur saeuiant mali, sapienti tamen corona non decidet, non arescet.

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

  • "I might hear further discourse of our discoveries ... but these may suffice as _verbum sapienti_; being of sufficient trueth to remouve errours ... also to take away malicious and scandelous speeches of maligne persons, who out of envy to God and good actions (instructed by their father the Devill) have sought to despoil it of the dewe and blamish the good name thereof."

    The Story of Newfoundland Frederick Edwin Smith Birkenhead 1901

  • _Verbum sapienti_, Middlebrook, as we said in my Latin days -- far off, now!

    Ravensdene Court 1899

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