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  • In was in that quarter, quia multum amavit, — because he loved much — that he was regarded as vulnerable by “serious men,” “grave persons” and “reasonable people”; favorite locutions of our sad world where egotism takes its word of command from pedantry.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • Perdite amavit mulierculam quandam, illius amplexibus acquiescens, summa cum indignatione suorum et dolore.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Crasam et qui nunquam amavit, quique amavit, eras amet,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Quis non vidit et amavit? veterem et novam vidi Romam, sed tibi similem non vidi Panareta; felix qui Panareta fruitur, &c.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • He is one whose errors, let us hope, shall be pardoned, quia multum amavit.

    The Newcomes 2006

  • He is described as severe to the stubborn, gentle to the docile, while of those who were scholars after his own heart it is said "Hos sibi conjunxit, docuit, nutrivit, amavit".

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

  • "Wait till you come to _cras amet qui nunquam amavit_."

    Brother Copas Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • _Cras amet qui nunquam amavit, quique amavit cras amet -- _ has its internal recurrence, the folding back of the musical phrase upon itself; and as it comes over and over again it seems to set the whole poem swaying to its own music.

    Latin Literature 1902

  • _Metamorphoses_ with an eye kept on _Paradise Lost_, the intellectual resemblance, in the manner of treatment of thought and language, is abundantly evident, as well in the general structure of their rhetoric as in the lapses of taste and obstinate puerilities (_non ignoravit vitia sua sed amavit_ might be said of Milton also), which come from time to time in their maturest work.

    Latin Literature 1902

  • Cras amet qui nunquam amavit, quique amavit cras amet.

    Latin Literature 1902

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