Word: medio
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...right in saying demand, command, castle, example, I won't undertake to decide; he certainly has much authority on his side. Perhaps, however, the safest way to shun the extremities represented by the Western haff and laff and the Yankee's parst and larst is to follow the medio tutissimus ibis rule of Ovid...
...medicus in Paradisum intret, fieri non potest.' Ab imo pectore suspirans, 'Et ego, Petre Sancte, vehementer, vehementissime quidem doleo,' oculis respondeo lacrimantibus, 'iter longissimum confeci, defessissimus sum, quoeam nescio. Nihilo secius portas reclude, ut interiora Paradisi saltem aspectare possim.' Portis patefactis interiora tota magnificentissima video, et mirabile dictu! in medio Paradiso Doctorem B. conspicor. 'Quid ita, Petre Sancte,' stupefactus exclamo, 'ibi est Doctor B. ipsum, in propria persona video.' 'Doctor B.? ubi?' Petrus, pariter admiratus, exclamat, 'Ibi, ibi! nonne vides?' 'Huncce?' exclamat Petrus, tollens cachinnum, 'Aha! iste non est medicus...
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