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"Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt," reads the epitaph from Virgil that the authors, all army medical officers, have placed above a photograph of a weeping soldier covering his eyes with his fingers.
The War We Don't Want to See Halpern, Sue 2008
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[4690] Improbe amor quid non mortalia pectora cogis?
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News at Eleven: Robert Fagles's ear for linguistic currency is evident in his working of one of many well-known lines from the fourth book, improbe Amor, quid non mortalia pectora cogis: Love, you tyrant!
News at Eleven: [Robert] Fagles's ear for linguistic currency Rus Bowden 2007
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In full "Quid non mortalia pectora cogis auri sacra fames?"
Notes 2002
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“‘Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt’: translate.”
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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“‘Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt’: translate.”
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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And among the Latins, the following passages prove their sense of the same: — “Aspiciunt oculis superi mortalia justis.”
A Dissertation on Divine Justice 1616-1683 1967
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It is the true sharpener of human ingenuity, _curis acuens mortalia corda_.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 Various
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= Compare Hor _AP_ 68-69 'mortalia facta peribunt,/nedum sermonum stet honos et gratia _uiuax_'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Non indignemur mortalia corpora solvi Cernimus exemplis oppida posse mori.
A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium Richard Boyle Bernard
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