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Dillenia alata, Myrtella beccari, and Styphelia abnormis.
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_Rusticus abnormis sapiens, etc. _ Horace, Sat. II, l. 3. 15.
Early Reviews of English Poets John Louis Haney
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"Rusticus, abnormis sapiens, crassâque Minervâ," whenever he has the luck to spend his summer Sunday's _otium cum dignitate_ in a paddock, invariably indulges in a baker's dozen, without waiting for an invitation to do so, and without saying "with your leave" or "by your leave."
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Margites -- knowing many things and knowing them all badly, as I hinted to him but now -- he is nevertheless ` abnormis sapiens, 'after the manner of our born Florentines.
Romola George Eliot 1849
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[Footnote 1: Ofellus, or rather Ofella, is the 'rusticus, abnormis sapiens, crassaque Minerva' of Horace's Satire, ii.
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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