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I retired in time, uti conviva satur; or, as Pope says still better, ERE TITTERING YOUTH SHALL SHOVE YOU FROM THE
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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At mihi cum longum post tempus venerat hospes Sive operum vacuo, longum conviva per imbrem Vicinus, bene erat non piscibus urbe petitis, Sed pullo atque hasdo, tum * pensilis uva secundas Et nux ornabat mensas, cum duplice ficu.
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Drink it, and doubt not the old result -- _de conviva Corybanta videbis_.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 Various
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* Martialis [episcopus] præter gentiliam turpia et lutulenta conviva in collegio diu frequentata filios in eodem collegio exterarum gentium more apud profana sepulcra deposuit et alienigenis consepelivit: [1664] 1
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908
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But I have abundant reason to be satisfied, and shall retire from life _conviva satur_.
Priestley in America 1794-1804 Edgar Fahs Smith 1891
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Charles looked around him, and rose to depart as a _conviva satur_.
Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert John Henry Newman 1845
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At mihi cum longum post tempus venerat hospes Sive operum vacuo, longum conviva per imbrem Vicinus, bene erat non piscibus urbe petitis, Sed pullo atque hasdo, tum [Footnote: Le dessert se trouve precisement designe et distingue par l'adverbe TUM et par les mots SECUNDAS MENSAS.] pensilis uva secundas Et nux ornabat mensas, cum duplice ficu.
The Physiology of Taste 1755-1826 Brillat-Savarin 1790
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[694] On the back of the engraving of Johnson in the Common Room of University College is inscribed: -- 'Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in hac camera communi frequens conviva.
Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 James Boswell 1767
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The conclusion of a treatise resembles the conclusion of human life, which has sometimes been compared to the end of a feast, where few are satisfied to depart ut plenus vitae conviva.
A Tale of a Tub Jonathan Swift 1706
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