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Yet in most things wavering, irresolute, unable to deliberate, through fear, faciunt, et mox facti poenitent (Areteus) avari, et paulo post prodigi.
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Sunt morosi anxii, et iracundi et difficiles senes, si quaerimus, etiam avari, Tull. de senectute.
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Animi forte accidens quo quis rem habere nimia aviditate concupiscit, ut ludos venatores, aurum et opes avari.
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Imprimis vero appetitus, seu concupiscentia nimia rei alicujus, honestae vel inhonestae, phantasiam laedunt; unde multi ambitiosi, philauti, irati, avari, insani, &c. Felix Plater, l. 3. de mentis alien.
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These the avari - cious dockmaster eagerly accepted in payment.
The Day of the Dissonance Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1984
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And like Adam he is neither avari - cious, guileful, cruel, ambitious, or insolent.
PRIMITIVISM GEORGE BOAS 1968
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'Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas atque metus omnes et inexorabile fatum subiecit pedibus strepitumque Acherontis avari.'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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Megadorus a sorore suasus ducere uxorem avari gnatam deposcit sibi.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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But in answer we hear only the flapping of the folds of Isis, "strepitumque Acherontis avari."
Thomas Carlyle John Nichol 1863
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"Metus omnes, et inexorabile fatum, ... strepitumque Acherontis avari."
Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870 John Ruskin 1859
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