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The said Constantine the emperor, as Eusebius writes, flung down and demolished all the heathen gods, silver, gold statues, altars, images and temples, and turned them all to Christian churches, infestus gentilium monumentis ludibrio exposuit; the Turk now converts them again to
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It is usually this sort of fellow who likes to insult people; for, as Seneca42 rightly remarks, ut quisque contemtissimus et ludibrio est, ita solutissimae est, the more contemptible and ridiculous a man is, — the readier he is with his tongue.
The Wisdom of Life 2004
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Ita enim ludibrio erimus omnibus in nostrum et tuum dedecus.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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_Caput ejus recisum ad regem reportatum, ludibrio fuit, neque indigno.
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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Nonne emori per virtutem praestat quam vitam miseram atque inhonestam, ubi alienae superbiae ludibrio fueris, per dedecus amittere?
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Nam illa quidem piget dicere, his annis XV. [182] quam ludibrio fueritis superbiae paucorum, quam foede quamque inulti perierint vestri defensores, ut vobis animus ab ignavia [183] atque socordia corruptus sit, qui ne nunc quidem, obnoxiis inimicis, [184] exsurgitis, atque etiamnunc timetis eos, quibus decet terrori esse.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Quibus mihi videntur ludibrio fuisse divitiae; quippe quas honeste habere licebat, abuti per turpitudinem properabant.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Inviderent talibus, si astra sentirent: et meatum suum fortasse deflecterent, ne tali ludibrio subjacerent.
The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator Senator Cassiodorus 1872
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But there's one small aspect of Python packaging that could easily be solved well if people just attended to it: Not enough Python projects clearly state what versions of Python they run on. ludibrio.
Planet Python 2010
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But there's one small aspect of Python packaging that could easily be solved well if people just attended to it: Not enough Python projects clearly state what versions of Python they run on. ludibrio.
Planet Python 2010
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