vulgus

Example Sentences

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She invited him to visit her garden—a sanctuary into which the profanum vulgus were never allowed to penetrate.

From Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by Adams, W. H. Davenport

This was called "the Vulgate," from the Latin vulgus, "the common people."

From Outline Studies in the Old Testament for Bible Teachers by Hurlbut, Jesse Lyman

Optandum est potius quam expectandum, ut ii qui habent aliquid in poesi vel historia notatu dignum in privatis bibliothecis reconditum, id in vulgus emittant, aut saltem ab iis qui hujusmodi rebus operam navant perlegi permittant. 

From Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards by Evans, Evan

The refinement of Rome might loftily echo Odi profanum vulgus et arceo: but Rome has herself fallen; and not on the portals of future science or of humanity shall any such motto be written.

From The Christian Religion An Enquiry by Ingersoll, Robert Green

He knew, and they knew perfectly well that, whatever the vulgus profanum may think, my real work was the critical edition of Sâyana’s commentary on the Rig-veda.

From My Autobiography A Fragment by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)