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Imprimis vero appetitus, seu concupiscentia nimia rei alicujus, honestae vel inhonestae, phantasiam laedunt; unde multi ambitiosi, philauti, irati, avari, insani, &c. Felix Plater, l. 3. de mentis alien.
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Mens quibus vacillat, ab aere cito offenduntur, et multi insani apud Belgas ante tempestates saeviunt, aliter quieti.
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De coelo substernebantur, tanquam insani de saxis praecipitati, &c. 1105.
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Ubi omnes delirabant, omnes insani, &c. hodie nauta, cras philosophus; hodie faber, cras pharmacopola; hic modo regem agebat multo sattellitio, tiara, et sceptro ornatus, nunc vili amictus centiculo, asinum elitellarium impellit.
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Ne tu Democrite sapis, stulti autem et insani Abderitae.
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Sed, num h鎐 et similia exempla quempiam e� insani� adigent, vt dicat hanc vel illam nationem, liberos in escam propriam mactare * consuettisse, Turcis libenter vendere, aut aquis submergere et suffocare solitam esse?
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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[647] They who speak thus are mad [insani], since they do not see thy works through thy Spirit, nor recognize thee in them.
Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler 345-430 1955
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'Sed superstitiosi vates inpudentesque arioli, aut inertes aut insani aut quibus egestas imperat, qui sibi semitam non sapiunt, alteri monstrant viam, quibus divitias pollicentur, ab eis drachumam ipsi petunt.'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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Scarcely less absurd is the chorus in the _Phaedra_, who, when hymning the power of love, give a long list of animals subject to such passion: the catalogue culminates with the statement that even whales and elephants fall in love (351): amat insani belua ponti
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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Aut inertes aut insani aut quibus egestas imperat,
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879
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