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But let not all be looking forward to a future, and fancying that, “incerti spatium dum finiat aevi,” our books are to be immortal.
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Cicero (_de legibus_, II, 11, 28), in enumerating the divinities that merit human worship, includes "Fortuna, quae est vel Huius diei -- nam valet in omnis dies -- vel Respiciens ad opem ferendam, vel Fors, in quo incerti casus significantur magis" ...
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Romani milites, improviso metu incerti ignarique, quid potissimum facerent, trepidare; ad arcem oppidi, ubi signa et scuta erant, praesidium hostium; portae ante clausae fugam prohibebant; ad hoc mulieres puerique pro tectis aedificiorum [361] saxa et alia, quae locus praebebat, certatim mittere.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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LXXVIII, 335; Regula incerti auctoris (sixth century) in P. L.,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913
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Antandro et Phrygiae molimur montibus Idae, incerti quo fata ferant, ubi sistere detur.
Introduction 1912
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_Benedictio generalise_ and even their frowns, curses, angry looks and irritable gestures may be called _Benedictiones minores vel incerti_.
The Path to Rome Hilaire Belloc 1911
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Dissonare etenim uidentur putasque si praeuideantur consequi necessitatem, si necessitas desit minime praesciri nihilque scientia comprehendi posse nisi certum; quod si quae incerti sunt exitus ea quasi certa prouidentur, opinionis id esse caliginem non scientiae ueritatem.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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Quod si apud illum rerum omnium certissimum fontem nihil incerti esse potest, certus eorum est euentus quae futura firmiter ille praescierit.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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St. Augustine tells us that it was in the last three books of his work that Varro treated of the Roman deities, and that he divided them under the heads of _di certi_, _di incerti_, and _di selecti_.
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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Quit est enim praeclarius quam honoribus et republicae muneribus perfunctum senem posee suo jure dicere id quot apud Enium dicit ille Pythias Apollo, se esse eum, unde sibi, si no populi et reges, at onmnes sui cives consilium expetant; suarum rerum incerti quos ego ope mea ex incertis certos compotesque consili dimitto ut ne res temere tractent turbidas.
Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 George Frisbie Hoar 1865
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