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Inopia, contumelia et dispendium, &c. In love these vices are; suspicions.
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[Footnote 488: 'Compendium et dispendium' (from _pendere_, to weigh).] 33.
The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator Senator Cassiodorus 1872
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I REMEMBER one in the University gave for his question, Artis compendium artis dispendium.
Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers. 1608-1661 1863
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In eodem parliamento moneta tam in auro quam in argento fuerat aliqualiter in pondere minorata ex causà permutationis extraneorum, qui in suis partibus ratione cambii magnum sibi cumulabant emolumentum, et Regi et suis mercatoribus Angligenis in magnum dispendium et detrimentum, &c. "]
Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth James Endell Tyler 1820
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