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No man was less fortunate than you in the moment of his birth — infelix opportunitate vitae.
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The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Sed rex nihil jam infectum Metello credens, [398] quippe qui omnia, arma tela, locos tempora, denique naturam ipsam ceteris imperitantem industria vicerat, cum liberis et magna parte pecuniae ex oppido noctu profugit, neque postea in ullo loco amplius uno die aut una nocte moratus simulabat sese negotii gratia properare; ceterum proditionem timebat, quam vitare posse celeritate putabat; nam talia consilia per otium et ex opportunitate capi.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Huc consul simul temptandi gratia, et si paterentur, opportunitate loci, praesidium imposuit; [268] praeterea imperavit frumentum et alia, quae bello usui forent, comportare, [269] ratus id quod res monebat, frequentiam negotiatorum et commeatum juvaturum exercitum et jam paratis rebus munimento fore.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Quod quamquam et saevitia temporis et opportunitate loci neque capi neque obsideri poterat
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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But, backed as it was by the influence of a despotic government, and _felix opportunitate_ as it must be deemed to have been in the period of its establishment, very few were added to it.
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Rubrical indications whose obligatory character is completely lacking, such as the prayers in preparation for Mass, "pro opportunitate sacerdotis facienda", are exceptional instances, the very terms of which show what is to be understood, but these exceptions merely confirm the thesis.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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Quis non te felicissimum cum tanto splendore socerorum, cum coniugis pudore, cum masculae quoque prolis opportunitate praedicauit?
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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This good man, to whom perhaps, remembering the date of his death, the words may apply, Tu vero felix non vitae tantum claritate sed etiam opportunitate mortis, was married at Cherry Burton, on the
Andrew Marvell Birrell, Augustine, 1850-1933 1905
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Phrases like the famous _ubi solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant_, or the _felix opportunitate mortis_, are the concentrated utterance of a great but deeply embittered mind.
Latin Literature 1902
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