The proud ac-po-di-soa walked in, followed by his smiling wife, with the sleeping stork gift on her back.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
From the first, or almost the first, the firm adopted a policy of advertisement which other printers were slow to imitate, the partners giving their names in their earliest colophons and making no secret of the fact that they were using an "adinuentio artificiosa imprimendi ac caracterizandi" which enabled them to dispense with the pen.
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard
In the time of the former the traditional severity of the old Roman life,-'tetrica ac tristis disciplina Sabinorum,'-had not altogether lost its influence.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar