praestet

“Everything excellent and worthy of remembrance has been achieved by wrong - doing, injustice and contempt for law,” was the admittedly highly rhetorical conclusion (Utra artium, medicinae an iuris civilis, praestet, ed. Garin, p. 29).

Dictionary of the History of Ideas JERROLD E. SEIGEL 1968

= For the use of mythological figures as character types, compare _RA_ 589 'semper habe Pyladen aliquem qui curet Oresten' and Martial VI xi 9-10 'ut praestem Pyladen, aliquis mihi praestet Oresten./hoc non fit uerbis, Marce: ut ameris, ama'.

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

Non ego omnino lucrum omne esse utile homini existimo (325) scio ego, multos iam lucrum lutulentos homines reddidit, est etiam ubi profecto damnum praestet facere quam lucrum. odi ego aurum: multa multis saepe suasit perperam.

Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

Quo fit ut ea notitia ceteris praestet quae suapte natura non modo proprium sed ceterarum quoque notitiarum subiecta cognoscit.

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

Fidem vero et diligentiam hic suam in adducendis ad catechismum liberis praestet Ecclesia, cupiens et gaudens liberos suos recte institui.

The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

Adeo ut quod quis bonum praestet invitante lege, a malo autem abhorreat lege deterritus, nullo prorsus argumento sit, eum sub lege esse, non vero sub gratia constitutum.

The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

Graviscae is so called from its unhealthy climate (_gravis aer_), Praeneste from its conspicuous position on the mountains (_quia montibus praestet_).

The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879

Et nunc ei scriptum est ut praestet; sed de tua ecclesia praesta avaritiae quorum nosti,

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Edward Gibbon 1765

Ut praestem Pyladen, aliquis mihi praestet Orestem.

The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II Samuel Johnson 1746

Et nunc ei scriptum est ut praestet; sed de tua ecclesia praesta avaritiae quorum nosti, &c.

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