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  • The former, in his Practicae musicae praecepta Leipzig, 1554, related a conversation on music theory between Erasmus Lapicida, Stephan Mahu and Bruck.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009

  • According to the second position, which Seneca seems to endorse, studying the first principles of Stoic philosophy is not sufficient; we should also think in detail about the demands that specific situations in life might make on us (and so, we should study praecepta relating to them).

    Seneca Vogt, Katja 2007

  • Barbara tamen immanitate, et deploranda inscitia contemnunt praecepta sanitatis mortem et morbos ultro accersunt.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • If we seek a good life by studying philosophy, do we need to study only decreta, or also praecepta?

    Seneca Vogt, Katja 2007

  • Duo praecepta juris una nocte expressit, neminem laeserat et honeste vixerat, sed an suum cuique reddidisset, quaeri poterat.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Eo quod obedierit Abraham voci meae, et custodierit custodiam meam, praecepta mea, statuta mea, et leges meas.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

  • Maeonioque _seni_ ', Prop II xxxiv 77' tu canis Ascraei _ueteris_ praecepta poetae ', and _Ecl_ VI 69-70' hos tibi dant calamos, en accipe,

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • = Compare _EP_ I iii 27-30 (to Rufinus, who has written him a letter of consolation on his exile) 'cum bene firmarunt animum _praecepta_ iacentem,/sumptaque sunt nobis pectoris arma tui,/rursus amor patriae _ratione ualentior omni_,/quod tua fecerunt scripta retexit opus', and Sen _Cons Marc_ 2 1 'scio a praeceptis incipere omnes qui monere aliquem uolunt, in exemplis desinere'.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • In it, according to Porphyrion, Horace 'congessit praecepta Neoptolemi τοῦ Παριανοῦ [61] de arte poetica, non quidem omnia, sed eminentissima.'

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • X 434 (written in hexameters) '_siderei_ uatis ... praecepta Maronis'.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

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