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Cum medici suaderent ut aut nuberet aut coitu uteretur, sic mortem vitari posse mortem potius intrepidus expectavit,
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Polyxena meets death with exultation (_Tro_. 945, 1152-9): even the little Astyanax is infected with Stoic passion for suicide (1090): nec gradu segni puer ad alta pergit moenia. ut summa stetit pro turre, vultus huc et huc acres tulit intrepidus animo .... non flet e turba omnium qui fletur; ac, dum verba fatidici et preces concipit Vlixes vatis et saevos ciet ad sacra superos, sponte desiluit sua in media Priami regna.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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"Ubi Rex Johannes, [he says] contra consilium multorum, intravit civitatem intrepidus, quod nullus antecessorum suorum attentare ausus fuerat."
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Intrepid comes from Latin intrepidus, "calm," from Other Delivery Options:
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[Footnote 81: For instance, in cap. xv., after cautioning his copyists against rash corrections of apparent faults in the sacred MSS., he says: 'Ubicunque paragrammata in disertis hominibus [i.e. in classical authors] reperta fuerint, intrepidus vitiosa recorrigat.'
The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator Senator Cassiodorus 1872
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[Footnote 627: Probably from some expected descent of the Vandals, in connection with the affair of Amalafrida.] [Footnote 628: 'Par suis majoribus ducatum sumpsit intrepidus.'] [Footnote 629: 'Deputatos.'] [Footnote 630: A conjectural translation of a difficult sentence: 'Mox autem ut tempus clausit navium commeatum, bellique cura resoluta est, ingenium suum legum potius ductor exercuit: sanans sine damno litigantium quod ante sub pretio comstabat esse laceratum.'
The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator Senator Cassiodorus 1872
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I thank God, I am and have been _intrepidus_, wherein I marvail at myself, having had such apprehension before; but it is God's grace. "
It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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"Macro, intrepidus, opprimi senem injectu multoe vestis discedique a limine."] [Footnote 51145: Mallet-Dupan, "Mercure Britannique."
The French Revolution - Volume 3 Hippolyte Taine 1860
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