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  • Sobrij quoque sunt, quapropter et longo tempore viuunt: et si quis ab eorum moribus degenerat, proscribitur perpetuò sine mora, omnibus nulla posita differentia personarum, vnde et in iusto Dei iudicio, quòd naturalem exercere iustitiam contendunt, Elementa eis naturaliter obsequuntur, et rarò eos tangit tempestas, aut fames, pestilentia aut gladius.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Sobrij quoque sunt, quapropter et longo tempore viuunt: et si quis ab eorum moribus degenerat, proscribitur perpetu� sine mora, omnibus nulla posita differentia personarum, vnde et in iusto Dei iudicio, qu騞 naturalem exercere iustitiam contendunt, Elementa eis naturaliter obsequuntur, et rar� eos tangit tempestas, aut fames, pestilentia aut gladius.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Haec primo paulatim crescere, interdum vindicari; post, ubi contagio quasi pestilentia invasit, civitas immutata, imperium ex justissimo atque optimo crudele intolerandumque factum.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • [11] "Igitur ut ab initio exordiar, in pestilentia conceptus, matrem, nondum natus (ut puto) mearum calamitatum participem, profugam habui."

    Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study 1886

  • Quos tamen Homerus non in pestilentia neque in variis generibus morborum aliquid attulisse auxilii, sed vulneribus tantummodo ferro et medicamentis mederi solitos esse proposuit.

    The Iliad of Homer (1873) 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1840

  • · "I Have Enough Oversized Rats in My Apartment, Thanks" - pestilentia JohnnyB

    Overheard in New York 2009

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