vulgus
Example Sentences
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He was accused, as the idle world always loves to accuse the visionary, of isolating himself from his kind with a muttered odi profanum vulgus et arceo.
From Aspects and Impressions by Edmund Gosse
And as for those cattle whereof I spake before, Odi profanum vulgus, et arceo, of which I account them, be they never so great, and so I leave them.
From Minor Poems of Michael Drayton by Cyril Brett
Vowel changes, 7. vulgus, gender of, 26, 2. -vum, -vus, decl. of nouns in, 24.
From New Latin Grammar by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett
Now in the study that night, Tom was the upholder of the traditionary method of vulgus doing.
From Tom Brown's School Day's by Thomas Hughes
He gave her his arm, and they vanished from the eyes of the ignobile vulgus.
From One Year Abroad by Blanche Willis Howard
