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Cum Graecis, neque in hoc despectus parte jaceres!
De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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Lenibus atque utinam scriptis adiuncta foret vis, comica ut aequato virtus polleret honore cum Graecis, neve hac despectus parte iaceres.
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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TV quoque tu in summis, o dimidiate Menander, poneris, et merito, puri sermonis amator. lenibus atque utinam scriptis adiuncta foret uis comica, ut aequato uirtus polleret honore cum Grecis, neue hac despectus part iaceres!
Terence 1912
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He frowns, for he does not understand, and yet he feels a strange power in this mean and despised man, _vilis et despectus_; he makes a real but futile effort to comprehend, and now I see in this pope, who lived upon lemons, [11] something that recalls another choice mind, theocratic like his own, sacrificed like him to his work: Calvin.
Life of St. Francis of Assisi Paul Sabatier 1893
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Quàm longum iter famelicus peregi! nudus, egenus, esuriens, perhorrescens, despectus, mendicans; sunt lacrymae rerum et mentem carnaria tangunt.
The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 Jonathan Swift 1706
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