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Pope Innocent III's response: "Publicae utilitatis intersit ne crimina remaneant impunita."
Losing My Religion: One Catholic's Crisis of Faith Michele Langevine Leiby 2010
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Speaking of the ideal drama, Horace says: "nec deus intersit, nisi dignus vindice nodus."
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"Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus Inciderit."
Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch
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[31] Horace, "Ars Poetica", 191, "Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus inciderit".
The Jesus of History T. R. Glover
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"Nec Deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus;" and the action does not take place in a "prepared" landscape.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine β Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 Various
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Were we so fortunate as to have invented this most veracious history and were therefore liable to be called to task for it by Our Lady of Criticism, not against us could the classical rule be cited, Nec deus intersit.
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Look at the exquisite 'Nymphidia,' with its subtle sylvan consistency, and then at the lumbering coarse ... 'machina intersit
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 1898
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[1800] Quae omnia quo melius praestare possit, potestatem habet tum Synodos convocandi, tum ut ipsis intersit, prospiciatque, ut quicquid in iis transigatur sit menti divinae consentaneum.
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Well: I have seen Washington, and surely his mission was not in vain; surely, as the Latins have it, 'Nec Deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus inciderit.'
Alamance; Or, the Great and Final Experiment viii, 9-151, [1] p. 1847
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If the maxim of Horace, βNec Deus intersit, nisi dignus vindice nodus,β had been a little more frequently observed by the ancient poets, their Deities would not have been so often placed in a degrading or disgusting light before posterity.
The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII 43 BC-18? Ovid 1847
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