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Moestitia cor quasi percussum constringitur, tremit et languescit cum acri sensu doloris.
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"Erat Montmorantius animo alacri et prompto, ingenio acri, corpora vivido, somni ac vini parcissimus, negotiis vehementer deditus, etc."
The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) Henry Martyn Baird
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'Angustam amice pauperiem pati robustus acri militia puer condiscat et Parthos ferocis vexet eques,' lines which also refer to the resuscitation by Augustus of the citizen-cavalry.
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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Nam in consule nostro multae bonaeque artes animi et corporis erant, quas omnes avaritia praepediebat; patiens laborum, acri ingenio, satis providens, belli haud ignarus, firmissimus contra pericula et insidias.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Philippo_ could stand as an epithet in such a case, and it is clear enough that Ovid is imitating _Aen_ III 13-14 '_terra_ ... acri quondam _regnata Lycurgo'_, as he does at _Her_ X 69' tellus iusto regnata parenti ', _Met_ VIII 623
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Nam Jugurtha, ut erat impigro atque acri ingenio, ubi naturam P.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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'Municipes, Augusta mihi quos Bilbilis acri monte creat, rapidis quem Salo cingit aquis.'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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Metelloque Numidia evenerat, acri viro et quamquam adverso populi partium, [251] fama tamen aequabili et inviolata.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Yet even this fine outburst is surpassed by the deservedly well-known passage of the third satire, in which Persius appeals to a young man 'who has great possessions' to live earnestly and strenuously (23): udum et molle lutum es, nunc nunc properandus et acri fingendus sine fine rota. sed rure paterno est tibi far modicum, purum et sine labe salinum
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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Any great man might be proud to receive such a tribute as (129) -- tu mitis et acri asperitate carens positoque per omnia fastu inter ut aequales unus numeraris amicos, obsequiumque doces et amorem quaeris amando.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
ehvickery commented on the word acri
bitter, sour, sharp
March 18, 2010
john commented on the word acri
Are you sure you don't mean acrid?
March 19, 2010