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From the Latin word consumere, to exhaust or be exhausted.
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Homerus quoque prodidit: Fama est, insidentes arietum, caprarumque dorsis, armatos sagittis, veris tempore, vniuerso agmine ad mare descendere, et oua pullosque earum alitum consumere, ternis expeditionem eam mensibus confici, aliter futuris gregibus non resisti.
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They were fruges consumere nati; men who stood on club doorsteps talking naughtily and doing nothing, wearing sleek clothing, for which they very often did not pay, and never going to church.
He Knew He Was Right 2004
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Homerus quoque prodidit: Fama est, insidentes arietum, caprarumque dorsis, armatos sagittis, veris tempore, vniuerso agmine ad mare descendere, et oua pullosque earum alitum consumere, ternis expeditionem eam mensibus confici, aliter futuris gregibus non resisti.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The Norwich coaches are now laden with mortals; that, while alive, shared with their equally intelligent townsmen, _fruges consumere nati_, the riches of their agricultural county.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 288, Supplementary Number Various
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Major per hoc probatur quod dantem multotiens et consumentem, nihil autem accipientem et custodientem cito derelinqueret substantia temporalis; et ita perirent omnis ejus actus quia non habent amplius quid dare et consumere ....
An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching George O'Brien
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= Compare _EP_ II vii 69-70 'tempus in agrorum cultu consumere dulce est:/non patitur uerti barbarus hostis humum' and _EP_ III viii 6 'hostis ab agricola uix sinit illa [_sc_ loca] fodi'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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The confusion, common to both the French and the English of the 15th century, in the derivatives of _consummare_ and _consumere_ relieves the translator,
Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University Addison Van Name
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Igitur ex divitiis juventutem luxuria atque avaritia cum superbia invasere; rapere, consumere, sua parvi pendere, aliena cupere, pudorem, pudicitiam, divina atque humana promiscua, nihil pensi neque moderati habere.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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[30] _Conterere_ -- that is, _consumere_, 'to waste my fair leisure.'
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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