pessimus

• “Coitus super repletionem pessimus, et filii qui tum gignuntur, aut morbosi sunt, aut stolidi.”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “Tu pessimus omnium latro es, as Demetrius the Pirate told Alexander in Curtius.”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “Tu pessimus omnium latro es, as a thief told Alexander in”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “Banbury cheese to be the best, ex vetustis pessimus, the older, stronger, and harder, the worst, as Langius discourseth in his Epistle to Melancthon, cited by Mizaldus, Isaac, p. 5.”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “It is precisely what is most elevated that is the most open to abuse and deception — abusus optimi pessimus; and therefore those lofty doctrines have sometimes served as a pretext for the most disgraceful transactions and veritable crimes.”

  Essays of Schopenhauer

• “It is precisely what is noble and dignified that is most liable everywhere to misuse and fraud: abusus optimi pessimus.”

  Religion

• “Disertissime Romuli nepotum, quot sunt quotque fuere, Marce Tulli, quotque post aliis erunt in annis, gratias tibi maximas Catullus agit, pessimus omnium poeta, tanto pessimus omnium poeta quanto tu optimus omnium patronus.”

  The Student's Companion to Latin Authors

• “Lawyer Tippit's principle was in _medio pessimus ibis_, while Lawyer Ketchum held _qui facit per alien facit per se_.”

  The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times

• “Quo quisque optimus est, pessimus, si hoc ipsum, quod optimus est, adscribat sibi.”

  Pens��es

• “Atqui diuitiae possidentibus persaepe nocuerunt, cum pessimus quisque eoque alieni magis auidus quidquid usquam auri gemmarumque est se solum qui habeat dignissimum putat.”

  The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy

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