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_ "Vertiginosus, inops, surdus, male gratus amicis," _ -- which I have whispered to myself, with prophetic lips, in the long, long watches of my lonesome nights.
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Credidi propter quod Ego autem tanquam locutus sum. surdus nonaudiebam et
Bacon is Shake-Speare Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence 1875
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Halifax_ (1775, 4to., p. 257.), in describing the High Sunderland, an ancient mansion near Halifax, formerly the residence of the Sunderlands, he notices that "over the north door is written, _Ne subeat Glis serdus_, a mistake for _surdus_; and over a door on the south side, _Ne entret amicus hirudo_."
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-- Homerus apud me mutus, imò verò ego apud illum surdus sum.
Poems Samuel Rogers 1809
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Sine tuâ voce Homerus tuus apud me mutus, immo vero ego apud illum surdus sum.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Sine tuâ voce Homerus tuus apud me mutus, immo vero ego apud illum surdus sum.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6 Edward Gibbon 1765
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_Tarda_ (Otis), 7. surdus, _Tetrao_, 8. the _Moor-hen_, 9. the _Partrige_, 10. the _Woodcock_, 11. and the _Thrush_, 12. are counted Dainties.
The Orbis Pictus Johann Amos Comenius 1631
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Sine tua voce Homerus tuus apud me mutus, immo vero ego apud illum surdus sum.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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