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- noun a mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (20,997 feet high)
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Examples
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Non laudo eos qui in desipientia docent secandam esse venam frontis, quia spiritus debilitatur inde, et ego longa experientia observavi in proprio Xenodochio, quod desipientes ex phlebotomia magis laeduntur, et magis disipiunt, et melancholici saepe fiunt inde pejores.
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Te cano, Patria, semper et atria ingenuum; laudo virentia culmina, flumina; sentio gaudia caelicolum.
A Handbook for Latin Clubs Susan Paxson
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[243] Laudo nuptias, laudo coniugium, sed quia mihi virgines generant.
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I think, however, that Cicero does not use _laudo_ in this sense except in connexion with _auctorem_, _auctores_, and even then generally with a subsense, at least, of commendation.
The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Magis non factum possum velle, quam opera experiar persequi; id ut scias, Iovem supremum testem laudo, Hegio. me infidelem non futurum Philocrati.
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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Sic isti solent superbi subdomari. asta igitur, ut consuetus es puer olim scin ut dicam? em sic. abi, laudo, nec te equo magis est equos ullus sapiens.
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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Only once, in chap. xxiii, does the author write in the first person (laudo, vitupero, etc.).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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* [369] Quotidie Eucharistiæ Communionem percipere, nec laudo nec reprehendo
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“We shall all be sorry to lose you,” said he: “laudo tamen [395].” '
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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Quidquid, dicunt, laudo; id rursum si negant, laudo id quoque;
Miscellaneous Poems George Crabbe 1793
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