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* honores et purpuras despiciunt (despising honors and purple robes).
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908
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trahunt honestea purpuras clientae. at fides et ingeni
Beatus unicis Sabinis Horace 1912
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“natio in publico muta, in angulis garrula (a people tongue-tied in public, but talkative in corners), honores et purpuras despiciunt (despising honors and purple robes).”
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908
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