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Non desunt, qui ex jugi studio, et intempestiva lucubratione, huc devenerunt, hi prae caeteris enim plerunque melancholia solent infestari.
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Non desunt nostra aetate sacrificuli, qui tale quid attentant, sed a cacodaemone irrisi pudore suffecti sunt et re infecta abicrunt.
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De quo etiam hic quasi per epilogum inserere libet aliqua, videlicet ad supplementum eorum, quæ desunt in prædicta Fr
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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De quo etiam hic quasi per epilogum inserere libet aliqua, videlicet ad supplementum eorum, qu� desunt in pr鎑icta Fr
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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= Compare _EP_ III vii entire (an apology to his friends for the monotony of his verse), and especially the opening lines: 'Verba mihi desunt eadem tam saepe roganti,/iamque pudet uanas fine carere preces./taedia consimili fieri de carmine uobis,/quidque petam cunctos edidicisse reor'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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There are 'stars' affixed to the published extracts, showing _coetera desunt_, matters of _secret_ moment perchance!
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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Such a translation can only have the value of a copy of some great painting executed in mosaic, if indeed a copy in Berlin wool is not a closer analogy; and even at the best all it can have to say for itself will be in Virgil's own words, _Experiar sensus; nihil hic nisi carmina desunt.
The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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He converses much in fragments and _desunt multa's_, and if he piece it up with two lines he is more proud of that book than the author.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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Nam gloriam, honorem, imperium bonus et ignavus aeque sibi exoptant; sed ille vera via nititur, huic quia bonae artes desunt, dolis atque fallaciis contendit.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Plausus tantum, ac sola cymbala et tympana, illis canticis desunt.
A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Caius Cornelius Tacitus
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