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"Delivered ore rotundo."
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"ref": "1851, Christophoros Plato Castanis, The Greek Exile, Lippincott, Grambo, & Company, page 233",
"text": "Assuredly the ore rotundo of the Greeks, praised so much by the Latin, did not consist in such uncouth diphthongal articulations which their authors gravely assert to be imitated from dogs, sheep horses, and other brutes.",
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"ref": "1875, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to my students, Passmore and Alabaster, page 119",
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"ref": "2015, Shadi Bartsch, Persius, University of Chicago Press, page 147",
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