acerba

Praesertim quum tormentum ei vita sit, bona spe fretus, acerba vita velut a carcere se eximat, vel ab aliis eximi sua voluntate patiatur.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

-- In poetry other Adjectives are freely used in this construction; as -- minitantem vāna, _making vain threats_; acerba tuēns, _giving a fierce look_; dulce loquentem, _sweetly talking_.

New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett

Perii. multa mala mi in pectore nunc acria atque acerba eveniunt. criminin me habuisse fidem? immerito tibi iratus fui.

Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

Troia uirum et uirtutum omnium acerba cinis quaene etiam nostro letum miserabile fratri

The Friendship of Allius 1912

Frūstrā diū cōnāta, tandem īrāta erat et salīre cessāns dīxit: “Illa ūva est acerba; acerbam ūvam [5] nihil moror.”

Latin for Beginners Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge 1900

'Mihi autem videtur acerba semper et immatura mors eorum qui immortale aliquid parant.

Historical and Political Essays William Edward Hartpole Lecky 1870

When the hangman stood above him, ready to begin the work of mutilation, he is said to have exclaimed: Mors acerba, fama perpetua, stabit vetus memora facti -- my death is untimely, my fame eternal, the memory of the deed will last for aye. '

Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots John Addington Symonds 1866

_ -- The one source of doubt felt by botanists with respect to the parentage of the apple is whether, besides _P. malus_, two or three other closely allied wild forms, namely, _P. acerba_ and

The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845

[309] mundus furiosus, a mad world, as he terms it, insanum bellum? are not these mad men, as [310] Scaliger concludes, qui in praelio acerba morte, insaniae, suae memoriam pro perpetuo teste relinquunt posteritati; which leave so frequent battles, as perpetual memorials of their madness to all succeeding ages?

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Sed enim fapientia quse calami - toiisexperimentisperdiicitur, ut nimio conftat, ita icm - per dura & acerba nidimenta diicenti exhibct.

Polybii Megalopolitani Historiarvm Qvidqvid Svperest 1793