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  • Quominus in nostris ponaris, amice, libellis, nominis efficitur condicione tui. aut ego non alium prius hoc dignarer honore, est aliquis nostrum si modo carmen honor. lex pedis officio fortunaque nominis obstat, 5 quaque meos adeas est uia nulla modos. nam pudet in geminos ita nomen scindere uersus desinat ut prior hoc incipiatque minor, et pudeat si te qua syllaba parte moratur artius appellem Tuticanumque uocem.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Atque illi, felicissimo omnium ante civilem victoriam, nunquam super industriam fortuna fuit, [529] multique dubitavere, fortior an felicior esset; nam postea quae fecerit, incertum habeo, pudeat magis an pigeat disserere.

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

  • At ego faciam ut pudeat, nam in ruborem te totum dabo.

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

  • ‘Gradiuum, nostri comites, arcete parumper, 195 ut soli uacet aula mihi. procul igneus horror thoracum, gladiosque tegat uagina minacis. stent bellatrices aquilae saeuique dracones; fas sit castra meis hodie succumbere signis. tibia pro lituis et pro clangore tubarum200 molle lyrae festumque canant. epulentur ad ipsas excubias; mediis spirent crateres in armis. laxet terribilis maiestas regia fastus et sociam plebem non indignata potestas confundat turbae proceres. soluantur habenis205 gaudia nec leges pudeat ridere seueras.

    The Marriage of Honorius and Maria Claudian 1912

  • Tum ego: "Quam," inquam, "me non modo ea quae conclusa est summa rationum, uerum multo magis haec ipsa quibus uteris uerba delectant, ut tandem aliquando stultitiam magna lacerantem sui pudeat."

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • Commentum sane stupidissimum, ut pudeat me Romani nominis, quod in sua religione non conquirant viros, qui saltem prudenter et ornate nobis haereticis responderent.

    Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1894

  • _ He maketh this answer, _Deserite omnes solennitates ipsorum, deserite nugas eorum: et si non consentiunt veritati nostra, saltem pudeat paucitatis suæ.

    The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) George Gillespie 1630

  • "By no means," said be; "it is not for such a man as I am to steal a victory, 'Malo me fortunae poeniteat, quam victoria pudeat.'"

    The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 02 Michel de Montaigne 1562

  • "By no means," said be; "it is not for such a man as I am to steal a victory, 'Malo me fortunae poeniteat, quam victoria pudeat.'"

    The Essays of Montaigne — Complete Michel de Montaigne 1562

  • Sed tamen alternis facilis labor: arida tantum Ne faturare fimo pingui pudeat fola; neve Efietos cinerem inmundum jadare per agros.

    P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796

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