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“The passage from Horace probably would bring a similar passage to the minds of most educated people of that era: Psalm 145:2, “…Nolite confidere in principibus…” In the King James version, “Put not thy faith in princes.””
“Pap�, et potentibus ac omnibus Christianorum populis Occidentis: quod nulla ratione faciendum est: tum, propter nimiam seruitutem et intolerabilem, qu� est hactenus inaudita, quam vidimus oculis nostris, in quam redigunt omnes gentes sibi subiectas: tum propterea quod nulla in eis est fides: nec potest aliqua gens confidere in verbis eorum: quia quicquid promittunt non obseruant, quando vident sibi tempora fauere: et subdoli sunt in omnibus factis et promissis eorum.”
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
“Jugurthae venit; dein ab illo cuncta edoctus, properato itinere post diem octavum redit ad Bocchum et ei denuntiat, 'Jugurtham cupere omnia, quae imperarentur, facere, sed Mario parum confidere; saepe antea cum imperatoribus Romanis pacem conventam [628] frustra fuisse.”
“Deum, et rursus concipere magnam fidem, et confidere propter”
“I assure you I had said _Requiesce anima mea_; but I now am otherwise put to my psalter; _Nolite confidere_.”
“Trust not in princes nor their children," said Lord Strafford, after the Psalmist [_Nolite confidere principibus et filiis eorum, quia non est sales in illis, _ Ps. cxlvi.], when, in the seventeenth century, he found that Charles I. was abandoning him to the English Parliament and the executioner.”
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4
“Neque Hasdrubal alium quemquam praeficere malle, ubi quid fortiter ac strenuè agendum esset, neque milites alio duce plus confidere aut audere.”
“: Noli huic tranquillitati confidere: momento mare evertitur: eodem die ubi luserunt navigia sorbentur.”
“Non hsc tibi litora fuafit Delius, aut Cretae juflit confidere, Apollo.”
“Pauca tibi e multis, qup tutior hofpita luAres. £quora, et Aufonio poffis confidere portu,”
Internet Archive: P. Virgilii Maronis opera: emendabat et notulis illustr. G. Wakefield
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