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Vilia miretur vulgus; mihi flavus Apollo Pocula Castalia plena ministret aqua.
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Odi profanum vulgus et arceo; Favete linguis; carmina non prius Audita Musarum sacerdos Virginibus puerisque canto. I despise the uninitiated mob and I warn them off: keep your tongues well-omened; I, priest of the Muses, am singing songs, never heard before, to girls and boys.


— Odes, bk.3, no.1, l.1-4 (translated by G  Williams).

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To some people cricket is a circus show upon which they may or may not find it worth while to spend sixpence. To others it is a cult and a philosophy, and these last will neve be understood by the profanum vulgus, nor by the merchant-minded nor by the unphysically intellectual.


— Autobiography A Few Overs (1913)

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Sævitque animis ignobile vulgus, Jamque faces et saxa volant.

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— The rude rabble are enraged; now firebrands and stones fly.
— Virgil, Æneid (29-19 BC), I. 149.

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Scinditur incertum studia in contraria vulgus.

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— The uncertain multitude is divided by opposite opinions.
— Virgil, Æneid (29-19 BC), II. 39.

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Malignum Spernere vulgus.


— To scorn the ill-conditioned rabble.
— Horace, Odes, Book II. 16, 39.

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Odi profanum vulgus et ardeo. Favete linguis.


— I hate the uncultivated crowd and keep them at a distance. Favour me by your tongues (keep silence).
— Horace, Odes, Book III. 1. ("Favete linguis" also found in Cicero, Ovid).

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Neque mala, vel bona, quæ vulgus putet.


— The views of the multitude are neither bad nor good.
— Tacitus, Annales (AD 117), Book VI. 22.

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Sævitque animis ignobile vulgus, Jamque faces et saxa volant.


— The rude rabble are enraged; now firebrands and stones fly.
— Virgil, Æneid (29-19 BC), I. 149.

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Scinditur incertum studia in contraria vulgus.


— The uncertain multitude is divided by opposite opinions.
— Virgil, Æneid (29-19 BC), II. 39.

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Tacitumque a principe vulgus dissidet, et, qui mos populis, venturus amatur.


— The crowd is at silent odds with the prince. As is the way of a populace, the man of the future is the favourite.
— Bk. 1, line 169

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vulgus ex veritate pauca, ex opinione multa æstimat.

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— The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices.
— Cicero, Oratio Pro Quinto Roscio Comœdo, X. 29.

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vulgus ex veritate pauca, ex opinione multa æstimat.


— The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices.
— Cicero, Oratio Pro Quinto Roscio Comœdo, X. 29.

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vulgus ignavum et nihil ultra verba ausurum.


— A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
— Tacitus, Annales (AD 117), Book III. 58.

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