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Iulia Caesarea, aliquando ignobilis, cum Iol esset; postea quia
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Ubi ego Sosia nolim esse, tu esto sane Sosia; nunc, quando ego sum, vapulabis, ni hinc abis, ignobilis.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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But before such word-painting as the description of Domitian's privy council criticism is dumb: nec melior vultu quamvis ignobilis ibat
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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Cupid sees her there, and, disobeying his mother's orders, has her brought while asleep, by his servant Zephir, to a beautiful palace, where all the luxuries of life are provided for her by unseen hands; and at night, after she has retired, an unknown lover visits her, disappearing again before dawn (_jamque aderat ignobilis maritus et torem inscenderat et uxorem sibi Psychen fecerat et ante lucis exortum propere discesserat_).
Primitive Love and Love-Stories Henry Theophilus Finck 1890
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_Studiis florere ignobilis otî_ (though I could wish that he had rather said, _Nobilis otii_, when he spoke of his own:) But several accidents of my ill Fortune have disappointed me hitherto, and do still of that
Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663
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_Est enim non ignobilis gradus stultitiæ, vel si nescias quid dicas, tamen velle de rebus propositis hanc vel illam partem stabilire.
The Discovery of a World in the Moone Or, A Discovrse Tending To Prove That 'Tis Probable There May Be Another Habitable World In That Planet John Wilkins 1643
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Thus also _Carolus Malapertius_, whose words are these, [2] _Terra hæc nostra si in luna constituti essemus, splendida prorsus quasi non ignobilis planeta, nobis appareret.
The Discovery of a World in the Moone Or, A Discovrse Tending To Prove That 'Tis Probable There May Be Another Habitable World In That Planet John Wilkins 1643
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Caput provinciae Iulia Caesarea, aliquando ignobilis, cum Iol esset; postea quia Iubae regia, illustris facta.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Non enim exigia, aut ignobilis, fed cum mag. na, tum pervetufta pars divi - nationis eft: aufpicium.
Plutarchi Chaeronensis Moralia, id est opera, exceptis vitis, reliqua: Plutarchi Chaeronensis ... 1797
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Nec melior vultu, quamvis ignobilis, ibat Rubrius, offenfae veteris reus atquc tacenda, i o j;
A. Persii Flacci et Dec. Jun. Juvenalis satirae: Ad optimas editiones ... Persius, Juvenal , Sulpicia, C . Lucilius, Gaius Lucilius, Johann August Ernesti, Societas Bipontina, Johann Albert Fabricius 1785
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