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Mostellariam Plauti in theatre Sanders heri vidimus et omnes condiscipulos nostros snadere hortarique volumus ut vel hodie vel cras videant. Argumentum tamen huius fabulae vix necesse est nobis eloqui quippe quae simillima sit paene omnibus Plauti comediis; Philolaches enim, adulescens Athenaeus, absente patre amantem suam manumittit atque grandem impendit pecuniam. Pater Theopropides revenit. Tranio, servus et omnium actorum maxime alacer, hunc ludificatur, Philolachi succurrit. Terribilem larvam dicit domum Theopropides nune habitare. Mox tamen pater cognescit quid sit verum, nee minus filio dat veniam. Itaque, cum aulaeum tollitur, nemo histrionum non est felix et contentus...
...glaring spotlights, stood Harry Strauss registering easy contempt. His eyes were slits in a sallow, freshly-shaved face. His nails were well manicured, his thick, black hair sleekly pomaded. Over a blue suit pressed razor- smooth, with blue shirt and tie to match, he wore a Chesterfield overcoat with vel vet collar. His pearl-grey fedora rode jauntily above a sneering smile...
...judicent, si quid eos fortasse reprehensibiliter vident"; in hasty translation "subjects must be admonished not to judge rashly of the conduct of their rulers, even if they see them, by chance, acting reprehensibly." In Ambrosiaster's "Quaestiones Veteris et Novi Testamenti", XXXV, the ruler "Honorandusest, si non propter se, vel propter ordinem"; "he must be honored, if not for himself, then for his position." And so it goes, everywhere in the standard ecclesiastical commentary on the Old Testament, as well as in the Old Testament itself, this same submission to the ruler is ordained...
...reported of Bracton how he said upon one day in summer, employing tempore abstraction is the vulgar tongue: "Vel Giantes vel Athleticos, Play Ball!" whereupon Coke maketh this pregnant note, as he well sayeth; "Mong chapoc este dans li cercle...
Quindecim Viri Harvardienses. Hubbo Mundi, Cal- Nov. (vel prope...