vulgus
Example Sentences
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In these various ways all priests were outwardly shown to be holy men, sacerdotes, marked off from the profanum vulgus.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by W. Warde Fowler
Moreover, the transformation of religion into a doctrine of the school, or into a mystery cult, always resulted in the distinction of the knowing from the profanum vulgus.
From History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) by Neil Buchanan
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
Nor had he before less happily rendered the 39th verse of the second Aeneid: Scinditur in certum studia in contraria vulgus.
From The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author by George Saintsbury
Yet am I, if I would live, forced to stoop 'ad vulgus captandum!'
From The Long Night by Stanley John Weyman
