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  • Castrum — doctus utriusque juris, as far as a few months in the service of Mr. Lawford, Town-clerk of Middlemas, could render him so.

    The Surgeon's Daughter 2008

  • He is immediately charged with atheism — “Homo doctus, sed vetus atheus.”

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Philostratus, Non doctus, sed natus sapiens, wise from his cradle, Eoicuras so much admired by his scholar Lucretius:

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Democritus a Leucippo doctus, haeridatem stultitiae reliquit Epic.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Platerus would have deceived him, by putting live frog's into his excrements; but he, being a physician himself, would not be deceived, vir prudens alias, et doctus a wise and learned man otherwise, a doctor of physic, and after seven years 'dotage in this kind, a phantasia liberatus est, he was cured.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • 'Twas Seneca's fate, that superintendent of wit, learning, judgment, [125] ad stuporem doctus, the best of Greek and Latin writers, in

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • The poet is once more a teacher and a leader, a theolo - gian and a philosopher: the poeta doctus.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas E. N. TIGERSTEDT 1968

  • Postquam igitur á Phíneó doctus est quid faciendum esset,

    Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader John [Editor] Kirtland

  • 'Simius iste, nil praeter Calvum et doctus cantare Catullum.'

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • 'Recte necne crocum floresque perambulet Attae fabula si dubitem, clament periisse pudorem cuncti paene patres, ea cum reprendere coner quae gravis Aesopus, quae doctus Roscius egit.'

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

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