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Ultimum refugium, extremum medicamentum, quod caetera omnia claudit, quaecunque caeteris laxativis pelli non possunt ad hunc pertinent; si non huic, nulli cedunt.
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I do not conceive this cap to have been made of the _skin_ of a beaver, for the term would then most probably have been "ex _pelli_ canis Pontici."
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Hannone inteso ne'i libri de 'poeti come Perseo era stato per ære a questa isola, e di quivi reportata la testa di Medusa, essendo egli ambitioso di far creder al mondo che lui vi fasse audato per mare; e dar riputation a questo suo viaggio, di esser penetrato fuio dove era stato Perseo; volesse portar due pelli di Gorgone, e dedicarla nel tempio di Ginnone.
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Atque interim Marius fugatis equitibus accurrit auxilio suis, quos pelli jam acceperat.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Dietsch, "is disgraceful only to those _qui ab hostibus se pelli patiantur_, who suffer themselves to be _repulsed by the enemy_."
Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War 86 BC-34? BC Sallust 1844
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It is true, it is true, the proverb is very true, "resumed the duke, descending the stairs," Piu pelli di volpi the di asini vanno in
My Novel — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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It is true, it is true, the proverb is very true, "resumed the duke, descending the stairs," Piu pelli di volpi the di asini vanno in
My Novel — Volume 12 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Faunus tigridis pelli insidens, cauda, &c. 9 9 0 no.
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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Exulare sivistis, sivistis pelli, pulsum patimini. —
The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) Charles Rollin 1701
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Vi sono delle capre saluatiche, delle quali ho veduto le teste, ... e le pelli de i cingiali.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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