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St Thomas Aquinas famously said that “pulchra enim dicuntur quae visa placent”, ‘beautiful things are those which please when seen’.

The Theology and Metaphysics of the Gothic Cathedral - part 1 2009

In Latin. magnae clunes mihi placent, nec possum de hac re mentiri.

Boing Boing: October 5, 2003 - October 11, 2003 Archives 2003

Parmenidean imagination in the haunting fear, then current, of petrification in various forms: the com - placent evocation of a dried-up earth reduced to a skeleton or rock, caught in a shroud of ice or salt.

COSMIC IMAGES H 1968

There is a Latin dictum: Bis repetita placent-to express the idea that "what is twice repeated gives pleasure."

Peoples and Nations in a Changing World 1961

"Nam quod isti dicunt malivoli, homines nobiles hunc adiutare adsidueque una scribere, quod illi maledictum vehemens esse existumant: eam laudem hic ducit maxumam, quom illis placet qui vobis univorsis et populo placent, quorum opera in bello, in otio, in negotio suo quisque tempore usust sine superbia."

The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

= A common phrase in the poets when they speak of their own verse: compare Catullus I 8-9 'quare habe tibi quidquid hoc libelli/_qualecumque_', Hor _Sat_ I x 88-89 'quibus [_sc_ amicis] haec, sunt _qualiacumque_,/arridere uelim, doliturus, si placent spe/deterius nostra' (at which Bentley cited the present passage), Martial V lx 5 '_qualiscumque_ legaris ut per orbem', and Statius _Sil_ II praef

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

_Tr_ IV x 123-24 'nec, qui detrectat praesentia Liuor iniquo/ullum de nostris dente momordit opus' and _EP_ III iv 73-74 'scripta placent a morte fere, quia laedere uiuos/liuor et iniusto carpere dente solet', and Professor Tarrant cites Hor _Carm_ IV iii 16 'et iam dente minus mordeor inuido' and Pindar _P_ II 52-53 '[Greek: eme de chreôn/pheugein dakos adinon kakagorian]'.

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

Quid habes, cur ignoscas homini armaria citro atque ebore captanti, corpora conquirenti aut ignotorum auctorum aut improbatorum, et inter tot millia librorum oscitanti, cui voluminum suorum frontes maxime placent titulique?

The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton

Non mi homines placent qui quando male fecerunt purigant. tu illam scibas non tuam esse. non attactam oportuit.

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

Wily as the old chap is, my wily arts impelled him and compelled him to believe me in everything. nunc amanti ero filio senis, quicum ego bibo, quicum edo et amo, regias copias aureasque optuli, ut domo sumeret neu foris quaereret. non mihi isti placent Parmenones, Syri, qui duas aut tris minas auferunt eris.

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