And the state runneth the danger of that which Tacitus saith; Atque is habitus animorum fuit, ut pessimum facinus auderent pauci, plures vellent, omnes paterentur.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Essays] Reference

Irrumpet adulatio, -- blanditiae, pessimum veri adfectus venenum, -- sua cuique utilitas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century] Reference

But it is worth persevering to Title Five, on crimen pessimum, because that casts the whole story in an entirely different light.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blogposts | guardian.co.uk] Reference

I have a love of the past which, because it goes down to the roots, has sometimes been called Radicalism: I could never consent with Bacon’s gibe at antiquity as pessimum conjurium, and Examinations have a very respectable antiquity.    From Wordnik.com.  [V. On Reading for Examinations] Reference

Some men are praised maliciously, to their hurt, thereby to stir envy and jealousy towards them: pessimum genus inimicorum laudantium; insomuch as it was a proverb, amongst the Grecians, that he that was praised to his hurt, should have a push rise upon his nose; as we say, that a blister will rise upon one’s tongue, that tells a lie.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Essays] Reference

Michael Angelo, Raffaelle, and others who shall be nameless, it has been like every other corruptio optimi -- pessimum: used as a hieroglyph by the help of which we may better acknowledge the height and depth of our own ignorance, and at the same time express our sense that there is an unseen world with which we in some mysterious way come into contact, though the writs of our thoughts do not run within it -- used in this way, the idea and the word have been found enduringly convenient.    From Wordnik.com.  [Luck or Cunning?] Reference

Purgemus omne pessimum.    From Wordnik.com.  [The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book] Reference