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  • And there he goes making philological remarks which should positively delight any lovers of Latin: when he recalls without deigning to say anymore that "ambitus doesn't mean ambition, religio, religion, homines honesti, honest men," who among you would not take pleasure in remember ing . . . what those words mean to anyone familiar with Cicero and Lucretius.

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  • And there he goes making philological remarks which should positively delight any lovers of Latin: when he recalls without deigning to say anymore that "ambitus doesn't mean ambition, religio, religion, homines honesti, honest men," who among you would not take pleasure in remember ing . . . what those words mean to anyone familiar with Cicero and Lucretius.

    Archive 2008-03-01 enowning 2008

  • Habitatores sunt discreti, et honesti, vnde et mercatores de remotis partibus libenter cum ijs communicant: et sparsim per regionem habitant plurimi diuites Christiani.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Habitatores sunt discreti, et honesti, vnde et mercatores de remotis partibus libenter cum ijs communicant: et sparsim per regionem habitant plurimi diuites Christiani.

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

  • [305] [See beginning of chapter ii., for the leading divisions.] [306] “Vox hæc dikaiosunē hoc quidem loco latissimè sumitur, ita ut significet non modo to nomimon, sed et quicquid ullam æqui atque honesti habet rationem; nam lex Mosis de hoc baptismo nihil præscripserat.” —

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

  • Verum ex his magistratus et imperia, postremo omnis cura rerum publicarum minime mihi hac tempestate [15] cupiunda videntur; quoniam neque virtuti honos datur, neque illi, quibus per fraudem is fuit, [16] tuti aut eo magis honesti [17] sunt.

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

  • In veste, cultu et moribus, reliquis puta domesticis minus honesti sunt, non tamen minus ad bellum praecipites, sed multo magis, tum quia magis boreales, tum quia in montibus nati et sylvicolae, pugnatiores suapte natura sunt.

    An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) Robert S. Rait

  • The persons here spoken of were _honesti_ in the first, but not in the second sense.

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

  • The French are the originators of this particular deception, but if a term is of any importance, if words derive any value from applicability, then ‘analysis’ conveys ‘algebra’ about as much as, in Latin, ‘ambitus’ implies ‘ambition, ’ ‘religio’ ‘religion, ’ or ‘homines honesti, ’ a set of honourable men.

    The Purloined Letter 1917

  • The third; that his outward bearing, wheresoever he come, be so honest and fair, that praise is (given) to GOD, a stirring up of good to all who see him, as the Apostle bids: _Omnia in vobis honesti et secundum ordinem fiant_, that is "That ye do: be it done honestly and in order."

    The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises Richard Rolle 1901

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