vulgus
Example Sentences
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"But the poem is not destined to be squandered on profanum vulgus: it is strictly for private consumption."
From Settlers and Scouts by Herbert Strang
More of a concio ad vulgus than the former, it shows a pretty obvious endeavour to soften and popularise, without unduly vulgarising, the academic tone of the earlier work.
From Matthew Arnold by George Saintsbury
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 Robert Green Ingersoll
Yet am I, if I would live, forced to stoop 'ad vulgus captandum!'
From The Long Night by Stanley John Weyman
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 F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller
