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Plautus: Credo ego ad hominis carnificinam amorem inventum esse.
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Nobilissimum et utilissimum inventum summa cum necessitate adinventum et introductum.
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Stultus, qui quaerit quod nequit invenire, stultus qui quaerit quod nocet inventum, stultus qui cum plures habet calles, deteriorem deligit.
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It took long for men to realize the value of this "inventum mirabile" used so effectively by the Alexandrians -- by Galen -- indeed, its full value has only been appreciated within the past century.
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* Deum quilibet opifex Christianus et invenit, et ostendit, et exinde totum quod in deum quaeritur re quoque adsignat, licet Plato adfirmet factitatorem universitatis neque inveniri facilem et inventum enarrari in omnes difficilem: [1595] 1
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908
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It took long for men to realize the value of this "inventum mirabile" used so effectively by the Alexandrians -- by
The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913 William Osler 1884
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This obvious form of decoration was, in all probability, used at Pergamon [88]; Pollio, as we have seen, introduced it into Rome: and Pliny, who calls it a novelty (_novitium inventum_), deposes to its general adoption [89].
The Care of Books John Willis Clark 1871
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* In tribus codicibus Graecis, et in uno Syriaco antiquae versionis, non inventum est nomen, ` Nazarenus. '
The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark Vindicated Against Recent Critical Objectors and Established 1813-1888 1871
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[387] "Edicimus libenti gratoque animo excipiendum esse quidquid utiliter fuerit a quopiam inventum atque excogitatum."
Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin Samuel Butler 1868
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Ibi vix quemquam inventum senatorem, qui vel absens evaserit; hic vix quemquam requiri, qui forte ut latens perierit.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 Edward Gibbon 1765
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