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Meo Pericʹulo (Latin)

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On my responsibility; I being bond.

“‘I will vouch for Edie Ochitree, meo periculo, …ʹ said Oldbuck.”—Sir W. Scott: The Antiquary, chap. xxxviii.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Manevia
Meng-tse
Menie
Menippos
Mennonites
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