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I am sure we find it otherwise in our days, [2298] pruinosis horret facundia pannis.
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He is described on his monument as being "facundia amabilis, acumine terribilis, eruditione auctissimus."
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Sed is natus et omnem pueritiam Arpini altus, [337] ubi primum aetas militiae patiens fuit, stipendiis faciundis, non Graeca facundia neque urbanis munditiis sese exercuit; ita inter artes bonas integrum ingenium brevi adolevit.
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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The expression is used as a simple relative with the implication of size only from context at _Tr_ III v 29 'quaeque tibi linguae est facundia, confer in illud' and _Tr_ III vi 7-8 'quique est in caris animi [_codd_: animo _fort legendum; uide ad 91_] tibi candor amicis --/cognitus est illi quem colis ipse uiro'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Ea est facundia, tanta in explicando, quod velit, gratia; tam candidum, et lene, et speciosum dicendi genus; tanta verborum, etiam quæ assumpta sunt, proprietas; tanta in quibusdam, ex periculo petitis, significantia.
A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Caius Cornelius Tacitus
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-- _Nec similem sui scientia, facundia, decretorum et legum perititia, strenuitate, judiciorum nec adhuc visus est habere sequentem.
Life of St. Francis of Assisi Paul Sabatier 1893
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Roman; more than power to the statesman; yet helpless beside the grave, -- "Non, Torquate, genus, non te facundia, non te, Restitvet pietas."
Val d'Arno John Ruskin 1859
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Thies two last wordes exactè and facundia now in euery mans mouth, be neuer (as I do remember) vsed of Tullie, and therefore
The Scholemaster 1570
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Thies two last wordes _exactè_ and _facundia_ now in euery mans mouth, be neuer (as I do remember) vsed of _Tullie_, and therefore
The Schoolmaster Roger Ascham 1541
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