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I felt quite certain, however, that not only was I right to speak my mind, but that in the last resort the common sense of what the Anglo-Saxon chronicler called “miletes agresti,” and the new journalism “the backwoodsman peers,” would turn out to be not for but against revolutionary action.
The Adventure of Living Strachey, John St Loe 1922
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Saxon chronicler called "_miletes agresti_," and the new journalism
The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography John St. Loe Strachey 1893
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Tibullus in one passage has mentioned what seems to be some rude attempt to give outward shape and form to an ancient pastoral deity [297]: -- lacte madens illic suberat Pan ilicis umbrae et facta agresti lignea falce Pales.
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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Here they are both indicated, the former in plain language, and the latter in that assurance of the softening of the barbarity of uncivilized life, “Quibus ex agresti immanique vita exculti ad humanitatem et mitigati sumus.”
The Life of Cicero Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1881
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“Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit, et artes intulit agresti Latio”.
The Life of Cicero Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1881
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[31] The words _Ille_ ludere _quae vellum calamo permisit agresti_ (Ecl.i. 10), might seem to contradict this, but the Eclogues were of a lighter cast.
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879
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"Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit, et artes intulit agresti Latio".
Life of Cicero Volume One Anthony Trollope 1848
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Here they are both indicated, the former in plain language, and the latter in that assurance of the softening of the barbarity of uncivilized life, "Quibus ex agresti immanique vita exculti ad humanitatem et mitigati sumus."
Life of Cicero Volume One Anthony Trollope 1848
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ante suos currus oppida uicta feret, ipse gerens laurus: lauro deuinctus agresti
In Honour of Messalinus, elected Guardian of the Sibylline Oracles Tibullus 1912
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et facta agresti lignea falce Pales, pendebatque uagi pastoris in arbore uotum,
In Honour of Messalinus, elected Guardian of the Sibylline Oracles Tibullus 1912
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