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The first notice of this passage in its proper significance is found in the Burmann Petronius (ed. 1709): here, in a note on the correct reading of "intertitulos, nudasque meretrices furtim conspatiantes," the ancient reading would seem to have been
Satyricon 2007
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Et si vident quod hoc etiam facere non possunt, cedunt retro ad decem vel duo decem dietas: aliquando etiam morantur in loco tuto, quousque aduersariorum exercitus separetur, et tunc furtim veniunt, et depopulantur totam terram.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The first notice of this passage in its proper significance is found in the Burmann Petronius (ed. 1709): here, in a note on the correct reading of "intertitulos, nudasque meretrices furtim conspatiantes," the ancient reading would seem to have been "internuculos nudasque meretrices furtim conspatiantes" (and I am not at all certain but that it is to be preferred).
The Satyricon — Volume 06: Editor's Notes 20-66 Petronius Arbiter
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Etiam homines novi, [34] qui antea per virtutem soliti erant nobilitatem antevenire, furtim et per latrocinia potius quam bonis artibus ad imperia et honores nituntur; proinde quasi [35] praetura et consulatus atque alia omnia hujuscemodi per se ipsa clara et magnifica sint, ac non perinde habeantur, ut eorum, qui ea sustinent, virtus est.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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'At mihi iam parvo caelestia sacra placebant, inque suum furtim Musa trahebat opus.
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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The first notice of this passage in its proper significance is found in the Burmann Petronius (ed. 1709): here, in a note on the correct reading of "intertitulos, nudasque meretrices furtim conspatiantes," the ancient reading would seem to have been "internuculos nudasque meretrices furtim conspatiantes" (and I am not at all certain but that it is to be preferred).
The Satyricon — Complete 20-66 Petronius Arbiter
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Ilia, Vestalis deseruisse focos, concubitusque tuos furtim uittasque iacentis
In Honour of Messalinus, elected Guardian of the Sibylline Oracles Tibullus 1912
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_Lamache_ in Arabic means (see Freytag) "_levi intuitu et furtim adspicere_ aliquem;" also to _shine_, as lightning, or a star.
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Quicquid agit quoquo vestigil vertit, Componit furtim, subsequiturque decor.
Liber Amoris, or, the New Pygmalion William Hazlitt 1804
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Pragensis furtim venit Constantiam, protectus a nemine; deprehensus comparuit, peroravit, habitus est perbenigne, liber abiit quo voluit, sanatus est, haeresim eiuravit, relapsus est, exustus est.
Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name of the Faith and Presented to the Illustrious Members of Our Universities Edmund Campion 1560
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