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Dey yoost 2 sai “Quid me vexare” til sumwun towld dem dat meened wat me maek u wurree.
Spycat - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Dum haec in senatu aguntur et dum legatis Allobrogum et T. Volturcio, comprobato eorum indicio, praemia decernuntur, liberti et pauci ex clientibus Lentuli diversis itineribus opifices atque servitia in vicis ad eum eripiundum sollicitabant, partim exquirebant duces multitudinum, [242] qui pretio rem publicam vexare soliti erant.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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To _tease_ is to comb or card: comp. the Lat. _vexare_.
Milton's Comus John Milton 1641
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Vituperat enim tanquam malam versionem Latinam: enecahat mc, et interpretatur ipse: Todeur des mets qu'on preparoit pour ses festins, me chatouilloit vivement l'odorat, AnoKvaisiv ad — modum eleganter et proprie usurpat Nosiev de iis, quae ap - petitum voluptatis excitant et alunt, neque tamen explent: tinde excruciare, vexare, enccare bene verti potest.
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Cum mihi non tantum furefque, feraeque fuetae Hunc vexare locum, curse funt atque labori.
The Works of Horace 1780
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Tum fen - fim frequentibus incurfionibus Bri - tanniara, Frifiam, & praefertim Gal lias acrius vexare perrexerunt, cla - dea, in quaecumque loca pergebant, ignem & devaftationem portantes.
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F u G I tamen, quantum potui, Grammaticorum conten - tiones, de Literis, Vocumque apicibus, fi modo integra & expedita videbatur Sehtentia, non nimis fohcitus: Non pro - babilis curiofitas, vexare voces, cum varies licet & tptqueas, idem tameti fatebuntur.
T. Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex Creech, Thomas, 1659-1700. ed 1770
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Here again is a demonstration of the absurdity of supposing that the world was made for the use of men (v. 156): -- dicere porro hominum causa voluisse parare præclaram mundi naturam proptereaque adlaudabile opus divom laudare decere æternumque putare atque inmortale futurum nec fas esse, deum quod sit ratione vetusta gentibus humanis fundatum perpetuo ævo, sollicitare suis ulla vi ex sedibus umquam nec verbis vexare et ab imo evertere summa, cetera de genere hoc adfingere et addere, Memmi desiperest.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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Here again is a demonstration of the absurdity of supposing that the world was made for the use of men (v. 156): -- dicere porro hominum causa voluisse parare præclaram mundi naturam proptereaque adlaudabile opus divom laudare decere æternumque putare atque inmortale futurum nec fas esse, deum quod sit ratione vetusta gentibus humanis fundatum perpetuo ævo, sollicitare suis ulla vi ex sedibus umquam nec verbis vexare et ab imo evertere summa, cetera de genere hoc adfingere et addere, Memmi desiperest.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series John Addington Symonds 1866
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