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Other edifying anecdote: on Friday 12/11/2004, La Regione had a weird piece on Hacker protetti da San Espedito, beginning with “Anche gli hacker, i terribili pirati della Rete, hanno il loro patrono” – terrible pirates of the Web?
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Other edifying anecdote: on Friday 12/11/2004, La Regione had a weird piece on Hacker protetti da San Espedito, beginning with “Anche gli hacker, i terribili pirati della Rete, hanno il loro patrono” – terrible pirates of the Web?
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E conciacosa che havea inteso che li poeti dicevan le Gorgone esser femine terribili, però scrisse che le erano pelose ....
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At tuba terribili sonitu taratantara dixit. incedunt arbusta per alta, securibus caedunt, percellunt magnas quercus, exciditur ilex, fraxinus frangitur atque abies consternitur alta, 15 pinus proceras peruortunt: omne sonabat arbustum fremitu siluai frondosai. vi
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Latin quotation on my lips -- _At tuba terribili_, like as not.
The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance Paul Elmer More 1900
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Scit namque prudentia vestra, quam terribili anathematis censura feriuntur qui praesumptiose contra statuta universalium conciliorum venire audeant.
An Introduction to the History of Western Europe James Harvey Robinson 1899
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Julius appears to have appreciated his artist from the first; both were what the Italians call _uomini terribili_, men whose brains worked with furious energy, grand and formidable in their imaginations.
Michael Angelo Buonarroti Charles Holroyd 1889
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Both were _uomini terribili_, to use a phrase denoting vigour of character and energy of genius, made formidable by an abrupt, uncompromising spirit.
The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti John Addington Symonds 1866
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Both were _uomini terribili_, to use a phrase denoting vigour of character made formidable by an abrupt uncompromising temper.
Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts John Addington Symonds 1866
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'_Omne ignotum pro terribili_,' laughed Lucilla, still not to be made serious.
Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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