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He taught at Paris for some time and was known as the Plain and Perspicuous Doctor (Doctor planus et perspicuus).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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Teste Olao Borrichio, perspicuus est Avienus, tersus, et aevo suo floridior.
Compediaria in Latium via; sive, Praestantiourum linguae Latinae scriptorum notitia ad usum Hispanae ivventutis González, Casto 1792
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perspicuus, lenis, dulcibus uber aquis; qui semel erumpens per singula tempora mensum
The Phoenix 1912
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Regul part ii.p. 214.)] [Footnote 43: Some partial indulgences were granted for the hands and feet "Totum autem corpus nemo unguet nisi causa infirmitatis, nec lavabitur aqua nudo corpore, nisi languor perspicuus sit," (Regul.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Regul part ii.p. 43 Some partial indulgences were granted for the hands and feet “Totum autem corpus nemo unguet nisi causa infirmitatis, nec lavabitur aqua nudo corpore, nisi languor perspicuus sit,” (Regul.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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