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  • 'Ego, litteratae qui sum propior Graeciae, cur somno inerti deseram patriae decus?

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • A study of the mechanical problems involved in the design of the engines, which have been discussed in the two previous courses; inerti effects, stresses; strength of parts, balancing, governing, etc. Weekly exercises and problems.

    The University of Virginia Record 1917

  • The principle of the vis inertiœ, for example, seems to be identical in physics and metaphysics.

    The Purloined Letter 1917

  • Sicaniisque crocis; senio nec fessus inerti scandet odoratos phoenix felicior ignis.

    On the Death of a Favourite Parrot 1912

  • Martia cui somnos classica pulsa fugent: me mea paupertas uita traducat inerti, 5

    Love in the Valley Tibullus 1912

  • Cuius dicti nouitate percussus harum coniunctionum quae ex duabus naturis uel in duabus consisterent differentias inquirebam, multum scilicet referre ratus nec inerti neglegentia praetereundum, quod episcopus scriptor epistolae tamquam ualde necessarium praeterire noluisset.

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • Athelstane, utterly confounded at an order which the manners and feelings of the times rendered so injuriously insulting, unwilling to obey, yet undetermined how to resist, opposed only the _vis inerti_ to the will of John; and, without stirring or making any motion whatever of obedience, opened his large grey eyes, and stared at the Prince with an astonishment which had in it something extremely ludicrous.

    Ivanhoe 1892

  • Ejus iter in Italiam inerti luxu & prodigis epulis fcedum.

    C. Cornelii Taciti opera omnia. ... Cornelius Tacitus , Melchior Freinsheim 1790

  • Ejus iter in Italiam inerti luxu G? prodigis epulis fcedum.

    C. Cornelii Taciti opera omnia Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Cornelius Tacitus, Johann August Ernesti 1790

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