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  • Tam honorifico civium testimonio victus Catulus e contione discessit.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Now that’s how you deal with pirates. 2009

  • Antra deserti teneris sub annis civium turmas fugiens, petisti, ne levi saltim maculare vitam famine posses.

    Archive 2008-06-01 bls 2008

  • Democritus put out his eyes, ne malorum civium prosperos videret successus, because he could not abide to see wicked men prosper, and was therefore ready to make away himself, as [6701] Agellius writes of him.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Among the things the “just and steady-purposed man” does not fear, according to Horace, are the south wind (“Auster” ) and “a mob of citizens clamoring for injustice” (“civium ardor prava iubentium”).

    America's First Dynasty Richard Brookhiser 2002

  • But as the orator said to his adversary, “Equidem vehementer lætor eum esse me, in quem tu cum cuperes, nullam contumeliam jacere potueris, quæ non ad maximam partem civium convenerit,” — so it is here fallen out.

    Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965

  • Itaque ex sententia omnibus rebus paratis compositisque, in Numidiam proficiscitur, magna spe civium, quum propter artes bonas, tum maxime, quod adversum divitias invictum animum gerebat, et avaritia magistratuum ante id tempus in Numidia nostrae opes contusae [254] hostiumque auctae erant.

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

  • Quae postquam oppidani cognovere, res trepidae, [497] metus ingens, malum improvisum, ad hoc pars civium extra moenia in hostium potestate, coegere, uti deditionem facerent.

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

  • Quare ita ego censeo: quum nefario consilio sceleratorum civium res publica in maxima pericula venerit, iique indicio T. Volturcii et legatorum Allobrogum convicti confessique sint caedem, incendia aliaque se foeda atque crudelia facinora in cives patriamque paravisse, de confessis sicuti de manifestis rerum capitalium more majorum supplicium sumendum. '

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

  • Saepenumero, P. C., multa verba in hoc ordine feci, [276] saepe de luxuria atque avaritia nostrorum civium questus sum, multosque mortales ea causa adversos habeo; qui mihi atque animo meo nullius unquam delicti gratiam fecissem, [277] haud facile alterius libidini male facta condonabam.

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

  • Statuit tamen Metellus, quamquam et aestivorum tempus [256] comitiorum mora imminuerat, et expectatione eventus civium animos intentos putabat, non prius bellum attingere quam majorum disciplina milites laborare coegisset.

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

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