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Hominem te agnoscere nequeo, cum tanquam asinus recalcitres, lascivias ut taurus, hinnias ut equus post mulieres, ut ursus ventri indulgeas, quum rapias ut lupus, &c. at inquis formam hominis habeo, Id magis terret, quum feram humana specie videre me putem.
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[1414] Strage animantium ventrem onerant, and rake over all the world, as so many [1415] slaves, belly-gods, and land-serpents, Et totus orbis ventri nimis angustus, the whole world cannot satisfy their appetite.
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[3752] Si ventri bene, si lateri, pedibusque tuis, nil
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[56] Veluti pecora, quae natura finxit prona et obedientia ventri.
The Symbolism of Freemasonry Albert G. Mackey
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Sed multi mortales dediti ventri atque somno, indocti incultique vitam sicuti peregrinantes transiere; [18] quibus profecto contra naturam corpus voluptati, anima oneri fuit.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Quin ergo quod juvat, quod carum aestimant, id semper faciant; [463] ament, potent, ubi adolescentiam habuere, ibi senectutem agant, in conviviis, dediti ventri et turpissimae parti corporis; sudorem, pulverem et alia talia relinquant nobis, quibus illa epulis jucundiora sunt.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Omnes [1] homines, qui sese student [2] praestare ceteris animalibus, summa ope [3] niti decet, ne vitam silentio transeant veluti pecora, quae natura prona [4] atque ventri obedientia finxit.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Non ego nunc parasitus sum, sed regum rex regalior, tantus ventri commeatus meo adest in portu cibus sed ego cesso hunc Hegionem onerare laetitia senem, quo homine hominum adaeque nemo vivit fortunatior?
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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Clare advorsum fabulabor, ut his auscultet quae loquar; 300 igitur magis demum maiorem in sese concipiet metum, agite, pugni, iam diu est quom ventri victum non datis: iam pridem videtur factum, heri quod homines quattuor in soporem collocastis nudos.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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Now, while they for the most part give themselves up, _ventri luxui pecuniæque_, the love of learning is gone from them to secular princes, the court and the nobility.
The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) James Anthony Froude 1856
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