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The word parvi is latin for small, hence the name parvimaculatus for the new species. '

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He described the children not as parvi pueri, little children, but as pravi pueri, depraved children. 74 The simple transposition of two letters alters the moral content immensely, from a statement of stature, a diminutive with implications of the Christian valorization of the small and weak, to a declaration of character, a condemnation of immoral conduct in children.

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

Si mors est retributio peccati ergo tam parvi quam magni pecccatum habent, cum nullus mortem evadere possit, etiam puer unius diei. back

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

In urbe Adelaide panis praemio parvi aut paucorum denariorum meretrices fieri eas libenter cogunt.

An account of the manners and customs of the Aborigines and the state of their relations with Europeans, by Edward John Eyre 2004

Igitur ex divitiis juventutem luxuria atque avaritia cum superbia invasere; rapere, consumere, sua parvi pendere, aliena cupere, pudorem, pudicitiam, divina atque humana promiscua, nihil pensi neque moderati habere.

C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

Tanto magis dic quis est; nequam hominis ego parvi pendo gratiam.

Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

Dum ne ob male facta, peream, parvi aestumo. si ego hic peribo, ast ille ut dixit non redit, at erit mi hoc factum mortuo memorabile, me meum erum captum ex servitute atque hostibus reducem fecisse liberum in patriam ad patrem, meumque potius me caput periculo praeoptavisse, quam is periret, ponere.

Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

The Benedictine text adopts the common reading gennetois, with the note, "Sed discrimen illud parvi momenti."

NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

In the terminology of theology, so far from being "parvi momenti," the distinction is vital.

NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

Ut ubi poetam carmine celebramus, non fastidit, quod ipse melius posset scribere, verum poema licet non magni facit (sic), amorem scriptoris libenter amplectitur, sic amici munuscula animum gratum testantia licet parvi sint, non nisi a superbo et moroso contemnentur.

Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887