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They that are in love are likewise [4751] sick; lascivus, salax, lasciviens, et qui in venerem furit, vere est aegrotus, Arnoldus will have it improperly so called, and a malady rather of the body than mind.
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Et hinc foeta mater Salacea Oceani conjux, verbumque fortasse salax a sale effluxit.
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I watched her while she practised all her tricks and blandishments, as I regarded a similar deportment in the _animal salax ignavumque_ who inhabits the sty.
Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 Charles Brockden Brown 1790
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