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Dolus, asperitas, in justitia propria bellorum negotia.
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Numidarum equi facile inter virgulta evadere; nostros asperitas et insolentia loci retinebat.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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(Ep.II. 7): "muta igitur propositum, et huc veni, _neque_ te terreat longitudo itineris, _aut_ hiemis asperitas."
Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century John Wilson Ross 1852
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Tum ego collecto in uires animo: "Anne adhuc eget admonitione nec per se satis eminet fortunae in nos saeuientis asperitas?
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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Quae structurae asperitas sensusque an, bifi; uitas non potest non do - cumeuto esse, aut, id quod Cnsauhono et nuper Jacoho pla - cuit, ra «A/.cj corrigenda, aut, quam equidem rationem prae - ttilerini, omnem hanc enuntiationem, co rc) aXXa avvedovaiv, pro spuria ejiciendam esse.
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Asperitas is characterized by localized waves in the cloud base, either smooth or dappled with smaller features, sometimes descending into sharp points, as if viewing a roughened sea surface from below.
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