gurgite

Barotius, in Italy; Apparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

His thoughts, struggling to force themselves out of that sphynx-like jargon which he spake and wrote, appear like the treasures of the shipwrecked Trojans, swimming '_rari in gurgite vasto_' -- Palmyra columns, reared in the midst of a desert of sentences.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various

'Praeterea gemino deprensam gurgite plebem faenoris illuvies ususque exederat aeris,' with Lucan, i.

The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

Ministerial colleagues will be _nantes in gurgite vasto_ -- or, in other words, all at sea.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 5, 1919 Various

Non enim pluvias (ut ait Pindarus) aquas colligit sed vivo gurgite exundat, dono quodam providentiæ genitus, in quo vires suas eloquentia experiretur.

A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Caius Cornelius Tacitus

Physicists experience that longing for religion natural to man; and hence they endeavor to patch up some sort of a religion from the shreds of truth that are found in physical science, "_rari nantes in gurgite vasto_."

Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886 Various

Romans of the past, and even with the barbarians, newly conquered, on the confines of empire (149): esse aliquos manes et subterranea regna et contum et Stygio ranas in gurgite nigras atque una transire vadum tot milia cumba nec pueri credunt, nisi qui nondum aere lavantur. sed tu vera puta: Curius quid sentit et ambo

Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

Quid nunc iungentia mirer aut quid partitis distantia tecta trichoris? quid te, quae mediis seruata penatibus arbor60 tecta per et postis liquidas emergis in auras, quo non sub domino saeuas passura bipennis? et nunc ignaro forsan uel lubrica Nais uel non abruptos tibi demet Hamadryas annos. quid referam alternas gemino super aggere mensas65 albentisque lacus altosque in gurgite fontis? teque, per obliquum penitus quae laberis amnem,

A Villa at Tibur 1912

Gorgoneo tinctum defigens sanguine ferrum. illa subit contra uersamque a gurgite frontem erigit et tortis innitens oribus alte60 emicat ac toto sublimis corpore fertur. sed quantum illa subit semet iaculata profundo, in tantum reuolat laxumque per aethera ludit

Andromeda 1912

Only ten have their heads above the waters, "rari nantes in gurgite vasto."

History of the University of North Carolina. Volume II: From 1868 to 1912 Kemp Plummer 1912