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At Sulla, quamquam eadem existimabat, tamen ab injuria Maurum prohibet; [602] suos hortatur, uti fortem animum gererent; saepe ante paucis strenuis [603] adversum multitudinem bene pugnatum; quanto sibi in proelio minus pepercissent, tanto tutiores fore, nec quemquam decere, qui manus armaverit, ab inermis [604] pedibus auxilium petere, in maximo metu nudum et caecum corpus ad hostes vertere.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Sed quoniam ea tempestate Romae Memmii facundia clara pollensque fuit, decere existimavi unam ex tam multis orationem ejus perscribere, ac potissimum ea dicam, quae in contione post reditum
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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After showing the many ways in which the painter might have expressed the parent's grief, and that none of them would be _decere, pro dignitate, digne_, he adds -- 'But Timanthes had too true a sense of nature to expose a father's feelings, or to tear a passion to rags; nor had the Greeks yet learned of Rome to steel the face.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 Various
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Ibi milites fessos itineris magnitudine et jam abnuentes omnia [364] docet oppidum Vagam non amplius mille passuum [365] abesse, decere illos reliquum laborem aequo animo pati, dum pro civibus suis, viris fortissimis atque miserrimis, poenas caperent; praeterea praedam benigne ostentat.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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'Id isti vituperant factum atque in eo disputant contaminari non decere fabulas ... qui quom hunc accusant, Naevium Plautum Ennium accusant.'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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"Mox de generibus et speciebus illud quidem sive subsistant sive in nudis intelluctibus posita sint, sive subsistentia corporalia sint an incorporalia, et utrum separata a senaibilibus an in sensibilibus posita er circa haec subsistentia, decere recusabo."
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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Rara temporum felicitas, ubi sentire, quae belis; & quae sentias, decere licet.
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Non visa est fortem scena decere Deunn Pleiades adspicies omnes, totumque sororum Agmen $ ubi ante Idus nox erit una super.
P. Ovidii Nasonis Fastorum libri VI. Ovid, Publius Ovidius Naso, Gottlieb Erdmann Gierig 1812
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S. decere qti!. dem, at non debereConfeflariom poeaiteotiaffl imponere, ac diAis fimifia habet n.
Adm. rev. p. F. Lucii Ferraris ... Prompta Bibliotheca canonica, juridica, moralis, theologica ... 1782
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Vnu lupereft; decere harmomciun cbrpus muficuin ca*
Reverendissimi patris Fr. Francisci de Macedo ... Carmina selecta 1683
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