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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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But after he had passed it, had he retreated re infecta, intimidated by a senatorial edict, what a pretty figure would he have made in history! —
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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This affair combined (for people will combine it) with the astonishing return of our great armament, not only re infecta, but even intentata, makes such a jumble of reflections, conjectures, and refinements, that one is weary of hearing them.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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At the corner of the road I meet the inspector of taxes, and hold a diplomatic interview with him; he wants me to pay taxes on the new house; I am informed I should not till next year; and we part, re infecta, he promising to bring me decisions, I assuring him that, if I find any favouritism, he will find me the most recalcitrant tax-payer on the island.
Vailima Letters 2005
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* Quaeritamen potest, si tota natura peccati sordibus infecta est, cur tantum una in parte corporis deformitas appareat.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996
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Durare nequeo in aedibus. ita me probri, stupri, dedecoris a viro argutam meo! ea quae sunt facta infecta ut reddat clamitat. quae neque sunt facta neque ego in me admisi arguit; atque id me susque deque esse habituram putat.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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Amph. _Vtinam di faxint, infecta dicta re eveniant tua.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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He returned, re infecta, to the land of his birth, three months later.
The Works of Max Beerbohm Max Beerbohm 1914
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In that same period four died in the College, and 34, if not more, quitted the house re infecta!
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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* Actum et de sacris Aegyptiis Judaicisque pellendis factumque patrum consultum, ut quattuor milia libertini generis ea superstitione infecta, quis idonea aetas, in insulam Sardiniam veherentur, coercendis illic latrociniis et, si ob gravitatem caeli interissent, vile damnum; ceteri cederent Italia, nisi certam ante diem profanes ritus exuissent: [1564] 1
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908
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