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  • (Toronto, 1986), 62: Contigit ergo domum puerum de more reuersum/utque solent pueri uisa referre domi,/simplicitas pueri mentiri nescia ueri/simplicitatis opus in sua dampna refert.

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • Violenta luctu et nescia tolerandi, as [3870] Tacitus of Agrippina, not able to moderate her passions.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Not that I am at all affected by the nescia qua dulcedine natalis soli, of Horace.

    Travels through France and Italy 2004

  • For a moment in the first book he flashes upon us in his full splendour (143): sed non in Caesare tantum nomen erat nec fama ducis: sed nescia virtus stare loco, solusque pudor non vincere bello. acer et indomitus, quo spes quoque ira vocasset. ferre manum et numquam temerando parcere ferro, successus urgere suos, instare fauori numinis, inpellens quidquid sibi summa petenti obstaret, gaudensque viam fecisse ruina.

    Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

  • The sequence "Planctus ante nescia", which was brought to Germany from France during the latter half of the twelfth century, is the basis for the Lamentations of

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

  • Quare si ab aeterno non facta hominum modo sed etiam consilia uoluntatesque praenoscit, nulla erit arbitrii libertas; neque enim uel factum aliud ullum uel quaelibet exsistere poterit uoluntas nisi quam nescia falli prouidentia diuina praesenserit.

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • Speaking of the question whether recruits drawn from the country or the towns are best, Vegetius says: '_De qua parte numquam credo potuisse dubitari, aptiorem armis rusticam plebem, quae sub divo et in labore nutritur; solis patiens; umbrae negligens; balnearum nescia; delictarurum ignara; simplicis animi; parvo contenta; duratis ad omnem laborem membris; cui gestara ferrum, fossam ducere, onus ferre, consuetudo de rare est.'

    Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official William Sleeman 1822

  • Gens insueta paci, tumultui assueta, gens immitis et intractabilis usque adhuc, subdi nescia, nisi cum non valet resistere,

    History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6 Edward Gibbon 1765

  • Gens insueta paci, tumultui assueta, gens immitis et intractabilis usque adhuc, subdi nescia, nisi cum non valet resistere,

    History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6 Edward Gibbon 1765

  • Gens insueta paci, tumultui assueta, gens immitis et intractabilis usque adhuc, subdi nescia, nisi cum non valet resistere, (de Considerat.l. iv.c. 2, p. 441.)

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

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