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Yet the youth of that period would not dream of going to bed or ever he had looked in at Crockford's -- tanta lubido rerum -- for a few hours 'faro.
The Works of Max Beerbohm Max Beerbohm 1914
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And gentlemen, as if they were afraid that this besetting sin of republican governments, this _rerum novarum lubido_
Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader Louise Manly 1896
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86 2 Ipse interea milites scribere, non more majorum neque ex classibus, sed uti cujusque lubido erat, capite censos plerosque.
A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885
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By _composition_, I here mean when our words are so judiciously connected as to produce an agreeable sound (independent of _numbers_) which rather appears to be the effect of nature than of art; as in the following passage from Crassus, _Nam ubi lubido dominatur, innocentiae leve praesidium est_ [Footnote: In the sentence which is here quoted from
Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker. Marcus Tullius Cicero
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[988] Sed plebes incredibile memoratu est quam intenta fuerit quantaque vi rogationem jusserit, magis odio nobilitatis cui mala illa parabantur, quam cura rei publicae: tanta lubido in partibus erat (Sall.
A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885
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