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Historicarum rerum pignoribus refertos curiosius consulens, haud paruam præsentis operis partem ex eorum relationis imitatione contexui: nec arbitros habere contempsi, quos tamta vetustatis peritia callere noui.
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Historicarum rerum pignoribus refertos curiosius consulens, haud paruam pr鎠entis operis partem ex eorum relationis imitatione contexui: nec arbitros habere contempsi, quos tamta vetustatis peritia callere noui.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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I am Testis temporum, lux veritatis, vita memoriae, magistra vitae, nuncia vetustatis {31}.
Defence of Poesie 1992
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The passage reads: Lux vitae, temporum magistra, vita memoriae, nuntia vetustatis ...
Defence of Poesie 1992
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The more systematic the view of human events which it enables us to gain, the more nearly does it approach its real office, and entitle itself to the splendid panegyric of the Roman statesman -- "Historia, testis temporum, lux veritatis, vita memoriæ, magistra vitæ, nuntia vetustatis."
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 Various
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Tacitus goes out of his way to laugh at the "licentia vetustatis," "the debauches of pedants and antiquarians;" as though he suspected the fortunes of his volume, and the future distinctions of the Teutonic genius.
The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola Caius Cornelius Tacitus
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Sed quoniam _aheni_ quoque exemplo usi sumus, venit nobis in memoriam, fidum optatumque, multi nominis Romae, grammaticum ostendisse mihi librum Aeneidos secundum mirandae vetustatis, emptum in Sigillariis XX. aureis, quem ipsius Vergilii fuisse credebat; in quo duo isti versus cum ita scripti forent:
The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it Frances Ellen Lord
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He knew well the "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle" and used it: "Sunt sane quædam vetustatis indicia chronico more et patrio sermone, per annos Domini ordinata," p. 2.
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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Though Leo X sent from the Vatican Library some manuscripts venerandoe vetustatis for the use of the scholars engaged in the work at Alcalá, it is quite certain that the well-known Codex Vaticanus was not among them.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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I am testis temporum, lux veritatis, vita memoriæ, magistra vitæ, nuntia vetustatis.
The Defense of Poesy 1909
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