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Optimum est ad maniam et omnes melancholicos affactus, tum intra assumptum, tum extra, secus capiti cum linteolis in eo madefactis tepide admotutm.
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Item Aethiopas Marcrobios, et Seras existimat, et qui Athon montem incolant: hos quidem quia viperinis carnibus alantur, itaque nec capiti, nec vestibus eorum noxia corpori inesse animalia.
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Cum autem essemus in via, hospitabamus in domo cuiusdam hospitarij, et ipsa ossa capiti meo supposui, et dormiui: Et dùm dormirem domus illa à Saracenis subitò accendebatur, vt me cum domo comburerent.
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Item Aethiopas Marcrobios, et Seras existimat, et qui Athon montem incolant: hos quidem quia viperinis carnibus alantur, itaque nec capiti, nec vestibus eorum noxia corpori inesse animalia.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Division of parts is essential also to a criticism that comes to an adverse conclusion on the value of the work, since the worse the work, the greater will be the incongruity between the parts, like Horace's Humano capiti ...
ORGANICISM G. N. G. ORSINI 1968
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And after this manner do they and their chimera, and such as Horace despaired of compassing when he wrote “Humano capiti,” etc.
In Praise of Folly c. 1466-1536 1958
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He had once been a friend of the poet, but had proved false to him, doubtless in connexion with the circumstances which caused his banishment; cf.l. 85, 'capiti male fido,' l. 130, 'perfide.'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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Sed quia qui perseuauerit usque in finem his salus erit, ideo athleta Christi, non solum se in bello huius certaminis confortans, uerum et animos ad uincendum inuitans, lapidem quo capiti supposito soporis modicum corpori hactenus indulgebat, humeris etiam fecit subponi; sanctamque eleuans manum fratres benedixit et uiatici salutaris perceptione munitus, spiritum celo reddidit.
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At pol te, si hic sapiat senex, pix atra agitet apud carnificem tuoque capiti inluceat.
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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He can laugh pungently enough at the style of oratory prevailing in the courts -- nilne pudet capiti non posse pericula cano pellere, quin tepidum hoc optes audire 'decenter'.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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