avaris

Touch the Greeks, and you can nothing new; all has been said: 'Graiis ... praeter, laudem nullius avaris.'

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

Touch the Greeks, and you can nothing new; all has been said: 'Graiis ... praeter, laudem nullius avaris.'

The Egoist George Meredith 1868

Alexandrum Syriacae jurisdictioni praefecit, turbulentum et saevum; dicebatque non illum meruisse, sed Antiochensibus avaris et contumeliosis hujusmodi judicem convenire.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 Edward Gibbon 1765

Graiis ingenium, Graiis deditore rotundo Mufa loqui, praeter laudem nullius avaris.

Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera Horace, Ludovicus Desprez, André Dacier 1793

Graiis ingenium, Graiis deditorerotundo Mufa loqui, praeter laudem nullius avaris.

The Works of Horace 1780

In a subsequent letter he thus describes the unhappy predicament of the young prince; "Nescit hic juvenis, nescit quo se vertat, hinc avaris, illinc ambitiosis, atque utrimque vafris hominibus circumseptus alienigena, bonae naturae, apertique animi.

The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 3 William Hickling Prescott 1827

The elaborate irony of Julian at length bursts forth into serious and direct invective.] 22 Ipse autem Antiochiam egressurus, Heliopoliten quendam Alexandrum Syriacae jurisdictioni praefecit, turbulentum et saevum; dicebatque non illum meruisse, sed Antiochensibus avaris et contumeliosis hujusmodi judicem convenire.

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