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Shakespeare's use of the Latin; but it was used "by an inexact scholar," -- a terribly inexact scholar, if he thought that "alienus"
Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown Andrew Lang 1878
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Partridge. — “I remember the passage; it is an example under communis, alienus, immunis, variis casibus serviunt.”
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Quando aliquis eorum infirmatur, ponitur in statione eius vna hasta, et contra illam filtrum circumuoluitur nigrum: et ex tunc nullus audet alienus postes stationum intrare.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Amurathes, quamvis a nobis alienus, vim sanctam illarum expertus solet eas gestare; e morbo namque hujusmodi interdum laborat.
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Alienus ego? alienus illi? aha, Hegio, numquam istuc dixis neque animum induxis tuom; tibi ille unicust, mi etiam unico magis unicus.
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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The gloss explains the second line thus: 'Dicitur ab alleos quod est alienum, et broge quod est fides, quasi alienus a fide'; and thus we learn that the Allobroges were a Burgundian people who were always breaking faith with the Romans.
The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London 1901
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Partridge, -- "I remember the passage; it is an example under _communis, alienus, immunis, variis casibus serviunt_."
History of Tom Jones, a Foundling Henry Fielding 1730
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Moriae vocabulum accedit quam es ipse a re alienus_.
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 Alexander Pope 1716
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Et erat primi libri sermo non alienus à Scæuolæ studijs: reliqui libri technologian habent, vt scis.
The Scholemaster 1570
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Et erat primi libri sermo non alienus à Scæuolæ studijs: reliqui libri technologian habent, vt scis.
The Schoolmaster Roger Ascham 1541
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