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  • (It is, however, possible, that my prior wrongful choices or my culpable negligence in forming my conscience put me into a situation such that I have applicable and irreconcilable duties and will be in breach of one or more of them whatever I choose or do or omit: I am then perplexus secundum quid, that is, in a dilemma but of a qualified, derivative kind, only in a weak sense unavoidable.) 4.

    Aquinas' Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy Finnis, John 2005

  • He interduced me to what he called a shore-perplexus punch, and 'twas like being kicked twice by a mustang.

    Heart of the West [Annotated] O. Henry 1886

  • A similar species with the same range is Polistes perplexus, also pictured on BugGuide.

    Comments for What's That Bug? kimintn 2010

  • A similar species with the same range is Polistes perplexus, also pictured on

    What's That Bug? 2009

  • I. 76* liagno ff inexplicabili tamen errore perplexus ifl X Scio quidem Vjrgilium Labyrintho tribuere inextricabilen$ errorem, & Catullum, errorum inobferyabilem 9 fed hoC Poetis licet, Mdam ver6 non ica fcripfisfe cercum eft 9 auc certfc non addidisfet adverbium. tamen.

    Pomponii Melae De situ orbis libri tres: cum Petri Joannis Olivarii Valentini, viri in ... Pomponius Mela , Ermolao Barbaro, C . Julius Solinus 1782

  • The scales of the mesoptychium extend all the way across, and are not inten-upted at the middle by smaller ones as in the C t perplexus.

    Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 1771

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