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Romans, 'tis hostis magis assiduus quam gravis, a more durable enemy than dangerous: and amongst many inconveniences, some comforts are annexed to it.
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He is said in his diploma to be “in palæstra theologia exercitatissimus, in concionando assiduus et potens, in disputando strenuus et acutus.”
Life of Dr Owen 1965
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= An imitation of Tib I i 3 'quem labor assiduus _uicino terreat hoste_'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Then comes the sign; when some argument is derived from the meaning of a word, in this way: -- As the Aelian Sentian law orders an assiduus [63] to support an assiduus, it orders a rich man to support a rich man, for a rich man is an assiduus, called so, as Aelius says, from _asse dando_.
The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Adverb or an adverbial phrase; as, -- senātus frequēns convēnit, _the senate assembled in great numbers_; fuit assiduus mēcum, _he was constantly with me_.
New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett
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[248] Lavacrum etiam corporum ususque balneorum non sit assiduus, sed eo quo solet intervallo temporis tribuatur, hoc est, semel in mense.
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"Fuit assiduus mecum," he says a little farther on.
Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero W. Warde Fowler 1884
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Osmund Register, as _dives et assiduus_ (rich and painstaking), and
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the See of Sarum Gleeson White 1874
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Propugnator assiduus, Fidei Christianae Vindex acerrimus.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I. 1634-1716 1823
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Pertentavimus etiam familiariter aliquando Tobiam Matthaeum, qui nunc in concionibus dominatur, quem propter bonas artes et virtutum semina dileximus, ut responderet ingenue, possetne qui Patres assiduus lectitaret, istarum esse partium, quas ille suaserat.
Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name of the Faith and Presented to the Illustrious Members of Our Universities Edmund Campion 1560
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