nugae
Americanplural noun
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Yet cf. his love of mythical nugae, ib. lxx.2307.Juv. x.
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These are vain rumours, nugae sunt, fabulae sunt.
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But the agenda rapidly become nugae—impossibilities—and the reason was simply, as it ever is, the lack of time.
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I have an aversion to tame poetry; at best, perhaps the art is the sublimest of the difficiles nugae; to measure or rhyme prose is trifling without being difficult.
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All this is very slight, merae nugae; but even if the humour be not of the first water, it will compare well with the humour of epigrams of any age.
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