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"infamis" in all the Schools for not paying his matriculation-fee, and that his name had been entered in the book called the "Speculum."
Life in the Medieval University Robert S. Rait
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The Romans for this reason called the middle finger 'digitus infamis,' the _unseemly finger_.
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
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Skematízein was made by closing the hand to represent the scrotum and raising the middle finger as if to feel whether a hen had eggs, tâter si les poulettes ont l'uf: hence the Athenians called it Catapygon or sodomite and the Romans digitus impudicus or infamis, the "medical finger" [FN#380] of Rabelais and the
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Alea sequa vorax species certissima furti Non contenta bonis, animum quoque perfida mergit; -- Furca, furax -- infamis, iners, furiosa, ruina.
Pelham — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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S.P. Q.R. decreto in perpetuum infamis et publicorum munerum expers esto.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6 Edward Gibbon 1765
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S.P. Q.R. decreto in perpetuum infamis et publicorum munerum expers esto.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Hac trutina non levius in Deum severissime iudicantem deliquerit ille caupo, qui gallum gallinaceum, quando non est opus, occiderit, quam infamis ille sicarius, qui plenus Beza, Gallum heroa Guisium, admiribili virtute principem, displosa fistula interemit; quo facinore nihil vidit orbis noster aetate nostra funestius, nihil luctuosius.
Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name of the Faith and Presented to the Illustrious Members of Our Universities Edmund Campion 1560
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It is expressed in a style of manly simplicity and freedom: Si quis, sive privatus, sive magistratum gerens de collocanda vivo pontifici statua mentionem facere ausit, legitimo S.P. Q.R. decreto in perpetuum infamis et publicorum munerum expers esto.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Jitare 10.dift. i.verb. deferatur; qui fugit in bello pubiico, infamis ejf, ut cap.
Adm. rev. p. F. Lucii Ferraris ... Prompta Bibliotheca canonica, juridica, moralis, theologica ... 1782
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