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Isidorus Origines V, 26, 7: DolusDolus originally meant a device without moral connotation; hence the legal term for fraud was dolus malus, and the use of dolus alone in a bad sense is later. is the mental cunning on the part of the deceiver: for he does one thing and pretends another. Petronius takes a different view when he says, What is a wrong (dolus), gentlemen? It occurs whenever anything offensive to the law is done. You understand what a wrong is: now take damage. . .
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Glossary of St. Dionysius: The spring-board is a kind of game. Petronius, Now lifted high at the will of the spring-board.
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From the Glossary of St. Dionysius: Petronius, 'It was quite certainly their usual plan to go through the Grotto of Naples only with backs bent double.
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Another Glossary:
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Nicolaus Perottus in the Cornucopia (p. 200, 26 in the Aldine Edition of 1513): Cosmus too was a superb perfumer, and ointments are called Cosmian after him. The same writer (Juvenal 8, 86) says, and let him be plunged deep in a bronze vase of Cosmus. Petronius, Bring us, he said, an alabaster box of Cosmus ointment.
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Terentianus Maurus on Metre:
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We see that Horace nowhere employed verse of this rhythm continuously, but the learned Arbiter uses it often in his works. You will remember these lines, which we are used to sing: The maidens of Memphis, made ready for the rites of the Gods. The boy coloured deep as the night with speaking gestures.
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Marius Victorinus III, 17 (Keil, Grammatici, II, 138):
