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  • Est tamen in dubio, hinc mirer an inde magis.] 92 Twice, at the request of

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • Fantastic illustration of the difference between the American “innocent until proven guilty” and the original latin “in dubio pro reo”.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Eeeek! 2009

  • Englishman of good birth, whether a person of the same name be connected with him, he answers (if in dubio.) “No — he is a mere namesake.”

    The Abbot 2008

  • Vis a dubio liberari? vis quod incertum est evadere?

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Radatur caput et fiat cauterium in capite; procul dubio ista faciunt ad fumorum exhalationem; vidi melancholicum a fortuna gladio vulneratum, et cranium fractum, quam diu vulnus apertum, curatus optime; at cum vulnus sanatum, reversa est mania.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Hic in aliquibus Aethiopiæ partibus habitant publicè, inhonestorum vtriusque sexus hominum consuetudinem inhonestam gerentes, et in æstu meridiano refrigerandi causa exeunt circa ciuitatem ad riparias iacere, et discurrere nudis prorsus corporibus omni pudore reiecto, ex quo procul dubio inhonesta vitia sequuntur.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Ego etiam curiosius super vno dubio quod priùs audieram, plures interrogationes feci ab aliquibus Monachorum, vtrum scilicet prælato eorum decedente semper successor per diuinum signum eligetetur: et vix tandem ab eis recepi responsum, quòd per vnum istorum miraculorum habetur successor, videlicit in missa sepulturæ defuncti omnibus Monachorum lampadibus extinctis, illius sola Dei nutu reaccenditur, quem fieri vult prælatum, vel de coelo inuenitur missus breuiculus super altare, inscriptum habens nomen prælati futuri.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Vt ille rem proponit, quamquam sine arte, apposite tamen, et vt satis intelligas, quod qu鎠o diligenter perpendas, aditus ad Cathayam per Orientem procul dubio breuissimus est et almodum expeditus.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Auet enim tecum conferre sermones, et procul dubio hominem multum adiuueris.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Ego quamuis verisimiles coniecturas habeo, cur null� citat� de Islandi� situ sententi� assentiar, quin potius diuersum quippiam ab ijs omnibus statuam, tamen id ipsum in dubio relinquere malo, qu鄊 quicquam non exploratum satis affirmare, donec, vt dixi, fort� aliquando non coniecturam, sed obseruationem & experientiam propriam afferre liceat.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

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