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  • Et alibi, ob ☾ et ☿ dominium et radiorum mixtionem, profundum fuit ingenium, sed lascivum, egoque turpi libidini deditus et obscaenus.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Obsoleto, intempestivo, turpi remedio fatentur se uti; recordatione pristinarum voluptatum se recreant, et adversante natura, pollinctam carnetn et enectam excitant.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Lucretius asks the same question: — "Quod si Juppiter atque alii fulgentia divi terrifico quatiunt sonitu cælestia templa et jaciunt ignem quo qoiquest cumque voluptas, cur quibus incautum scelus aversabile cumquest non faciunt icti flammas ut fulguris halent pectore perfixo, documen mortalibus acre, et potius nulla sibi turpi conscius in re volvitur in flammis innoxius inque peditur turbine cælesti subito correptus et igni? cur etiam loca sola petunt frustraque laborant?"

    Lunheng 1962

  • Altera pars superest, qua turpi carmine factus arguor obscaeni doctor adulterii. '

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • _Ex turpi causâ non oritur actio_, it is sententiously said; for there is much dormitative virtue in a Latin maxim.

    Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Havelock Ellis 1899

  • [73] "Violentia quorundam Medicorum adactus sum anno MDXXXVI, seu XXXVII, turpi conditione pacisci cum Collegio, sed ut dixi, postmodum dissoluta est, anno MDXXXIX et restitutus sum integrè."

    Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study 1886

  • Cujus quidem hæc præcipua ac prope singularis et est, et semper fuit, quod propriis ingenii et industriæ suæ viribus innixus Aulici favoris nec appetens, nec particeps, sine ullo magnatum patrocinio, sine turpi

    Notes and Queries, Number 186, May 21, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Various 1852

  • "Potest et femina quaeque et mas, pro turpi corporis usu, pretium, accipere et petere."

    Awful Disclosures Containing, Also, Many Incidents Never before Published Maria Monk 1832

  • Hofmann does not give him a good character: "Obiit A.C. 1506, turpi morbo confectus, ætat. 70, relicto filio notho."

    The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

  • Denique post vi vel senio collapsa palatia, quæ quondam ingentes tenuerunt viri, post diruptos arcus triumphales, (unde majores horum forsitan corruerunt,) de ipsius vetustatis ac propriæ impietatis fragminibus vilem quæstum turpi mercimonio captare non puduit.

    History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6 Edward Gibbon 1765

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