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  • Verum quia apud Latinos nullum est tale participium activum, malui tempus negligere, quam vertendo Mundatum pervertere quod erat longe majoris momenti, nempe ut soli Deo relinquatur mundandi officium.

    A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians 1797-1878 1860

  • Flagitat aliquid a eft quaerere, Utrum fit tur - le jus dicente orator, aut con - pius folcscifmum facere, et fulente in publicum? dic te vultum pervertere, an legem morem ei gefturum, fi in ex - violare, peijurii fe obligare, ordio ibloecifinum, aut in nar* injufte malo quam bono plus rationebarbarifmumadmittere tribuere?

    Ploutarchou tou Chairōneōs ta Ēthika: Plutarchi Chaeronensis Moralia, id est ... 1797

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