nugae
Americanplural noun
Example Sentences
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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.
From Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) by Wragg, H.
And how is this: 'Sed majorum nugae negotia vocantur; puerorum autem talia cum sint puniuntur a majoribus.'
From Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 1 by Stevenson, Robert Louis
And how is this: “Sed majorum nugae negotia vocantur; puerorum autem talia cum sint puniuntur a majoribus.”
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
Yet cf. his love of mythical nugae, ib. lxx.2307.Juv. x.
From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel
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.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth
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