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An potus café quotidianus valetudini tuendæ vitæ que producendæ noxius?
All About Coffee 1909
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Maffææus makes the breath of crocodiles suavissimus, but that of the Malabar serpents and vipers "adeo teter ac noxius ut afflatu ipso necare perhibeantur."
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Tum vifus ejfe noxius, vocemque komini, quem priorcs coruem '
Publii Terentii Afri Comoediae sex novissime recognitae cum selecta varietate lectionum et ... 1779
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“adeo teter ac noxius ut afflatu ipso necare perhibeantur.”
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Hifce jam alla - tisfatis patet, corpus humiditatem aeris attrahere: omois vero agr humidus non eft aeque noxius; ftagnans & corruptus eft nocentiffimus, aer enim ut aqua motu purgatur* Aer in celiulis antiquis oo clufjs, fepulchris, loculis mortuorum, puteis pro - fundis &c. fme motu detentus, adeo eft venenatu% ilt nafo illuc admoto repente moriamur: tempore vernali templa magna lapidibus exftrufta humidita - tem exhalant; qui jejuno ftomachoea tunc frequen - tant, Febri intermittente fepiffime corripiuntur, pra - cipue fi fint fornicata, quoniam aer fub laqueari ininus mutatur indeque corrumpitur.
Caroli a Linné equit. aur. de stella polari archiatri regii med. et botan. profess. Upsal. Acad ... 1788
chained_bear commented on the word noxius
A condemned criminal forced to fight another one. From (a different) Wikipedia page: "One had a weapon and was blindfolded and the other was unarmed but had no blindfold." See also this Google Books page.
April 17, 2009
yarb commented on the word noxius
Which would you rather be? I think I'd prefer to be unarmed and sighted.
April 18, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word noxius
I'm not sure, but probably unarmed and sighted. Though undoubtedly they had some "compensating" factor worked into it to make it a good show--like you'd get a lion up your backside or something.
I actually stopped adding to this list, because reading about the subject makes me nauseous. Then my S.O. suggested I make a list of subjects that I've made lists about that make me nauseous.
...I thought about it.
April 18, 2009