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Natura aequa est, puerosque videmus mendicorum nulla ex parte regum filiis dissimiles, plerumque saniores.
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Calcutta, _Mens aequa in arduis_; such was the aspect with which the great Proconsul presented himself to his judges.
The Ontario High School Reader A.E. Marty
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'Te quoque Vergilio comitem non aequa, Tibulle, mors iuvenem campos misit ad Elysios, ne foret aut elegis molles qui fleret amores aut caneret forti regia bella pede.'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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= 'Favourable'; compare _Her_ I 23 'sed bene consuluit casto deus _aequus_ amori'; _Tr_ I ii 6 '_aequa_ Venus Teucris, Pallas
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Theseu,/uiuit et haec aequa mente tulisse uelis ', which is universally condemned; but the formulaic nature of 3-4 suggests that 1-2' Mitius inueni quam te genus omne ferarum,/credita non ulli quam tibi peius eram ', found in all manuscripts, is a second interpolation.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Scepsius Ausonios, actaque Roma rea est; falsa tamen passa est aequa conuicia mente, obfuit auctori nec fera lingua suo.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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The motto of Warren Hastings was _Mens aequa in arduis_, -- An even temper in times of trial.
Horace and His Influence Grant Showerman
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The scholiasts and grammarians preserve seven fragments (Morel 110-11), the most interesting being the four lines on the death of Tibullus: 'Te quoque Vergilio comitem non aequa, Tibulle,/Mors iuuenem campos misit ad Elysios,/ne foret aut elegis molles qui fleret amores/aut caneret forti regia bella pede'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Libra Phoebeos tenet aequa currus, turba secretam Cererem frequentat et citi tectis properant relictis
The Last Pilgrimage 1912
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Postremus aduersum fortunam dolor incanduit conquestusque non aequa meritis praemia pensari.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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