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  • Carp: it was a poisonous regret to Mr. Casaubon that he had once addressed a dedication to Carp in which he had numbered that member of the animal kingdom among the viros nullo aevo perituros, a mistake which would infallibly lay the dedicator open to ridicule in the next age, and might even be chuckled over by Pike and Tench in the present.

    Middlemarch George Eliot 1849

  • Sin autem mutatis animis non obtemperaveritis, fed in errorem prola -, pfi Deos alios adoraveritis et colueritis, 18. pree - dico vobis, vos perituros elTe, neque diu setatem pro -

    Pentateuchus ex recensione textus hebraei et versionum antiquarum latine versus notisque philologicis [microform] Dathe, Johann August, 1731-1791, ed 1791

  • Quodii J. ov8b - Iei veiiri obli - ti alios B-eos - feq. uernini eos-que eoietis. et adorabi - tis,, vobis - jam cert. a affevero,. vo&eito. perituros eiTey

    Pentateuchus ex recensione textus hebraei et versionum antiquarum latine versus notisque philologicis [microform] Dathe, Johann August, 1731-1791, ed 1791

  • And from the first there was to be a Latin dedication about which everything was uncertain except that it was not to be addressed to Carp: it was a poisonous regret to Mr. Casaubon that he had once addressed a dedication to Carp in which he had numbered that member of the animal kingdom among the viros nullo aevo perituros, a mistake which would infallibly lay the dedicator open to ridicule in the next age, and might even be chuckled over by Pike and Tench in the present.

    Middlemarch 1871

  • And from the first there was to be a Latin dedication about which everything was uncertain except that it was not to be addressed to Carp: it was a poisonous regret to Mr. Casaubon that he had once addressed a dedication to Carp in which he had numbered that member of the animal kingdom among the viros nullo aevo perituros, a mistake which would infallibly lay the dedicator open to ridicule in the next age, and might even be chuckled over by Pike and Tench in the present.

    Middlemarch: a study of provincial life (1900) 1871

  • £r cum ceteris padus Hifpams, qudm folos | perituros effe.

    Titi Livii Patavini Historiarum ab urbe condita libri qui supersunt xxxv Lallemand, Jean Nicolas, ed 1775

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