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The scholar answered, My worshipful lord, my genie is not apt nate to that which this flagitious nebulon saith, to excoriate the cut (ic) ule of our vernacular Gallic, but vice-versally I gnave opere, and by veles and rames enite to locupletate it with the Latinicome redundance.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The scholar answered, My worshipful lord, my genie is not apt nate to that which this flagitious nebulon saith, to excoriate the cut (ic) ule of our vernacular Gallic, but vice-versally I gnave opere, and by veles and rames enite to locupletate it with the Latinicome redundance.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The scholar answered, My worshipful lord, my genie is not apt nate to that which this flagitious nebulon saith, to excoriate the cut (ic) ule of our vernacular Gallic, but vice-versally I gnave opere, and by veles and rames enite to locupletate it with the Latinicome redundance.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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PauUus ex Fefto: Sub vitem haftas jacere dicitur veles, cum eas fub manu furfum mittit.
A. Persii Flacci et Dec. Jun. Juvenalis satirae: Ad optimas editiones ... Persius, Juvenal , Sulpicia, C . Lucilius, Gaius Lucilius, Johann August Ernesti, Societas Bipontina, Johann Albert Fabricius 1785
chained_bear commented on the word veles
Plural velites.
April 17, 2009