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Suave mari magno turbantibus aequora ventis e terra magnum alterius spectare laborem.
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Neither is that pleasure of small efficacy and contentment to the mind of man, which the poet Lucretius describeth elegantly: — “Suave mari magno, turbantibus aequora ventis, &c.”
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_Tro_ 1090-91 'in cacumine/erecta _summos_ [_uar_ summo] turba librauit _pedes_', and _Met_ IV 562 'aequora destringunt _summis_
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Hippomenen, nec sic meta pallebat in ipsa; uidi et Abydeni iuuenis certantia remis bracchia laudauique manus et saepe natanti praeluxi: minor ille calor quo saeua tepebant aequora: tu ueteres, iuuenis, transgressus amores.
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MVLTAS per gentis et multa per aequora uectus aduenio has miseras, frater, ad inferias: ut te postremo donarem munere mortis
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Leonidas or Antipater or Simonides himself; and with this it combines the specific Latin dignity, and a range of tones, from the ocean-roll of its opening hexameter, _Multas per gentes et multa per aequora vectus_, to the sobbing wail of the _Atque in perpehtum frater ave atque vale_ in which it dies away, that is hardly equalled except in some of
Latin Literature 1902
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"Suave mari magno, turbantibus aequora ventis," etc.
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* Suave mari magno, turbantibus aequora ventis: [787] 1
The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 08. 1630-1694 1820
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There is indeed an air of the marvellous in the recital of d'Anghiera, which begins in these words: Non aliter ac nos canibus gallicis per aequora campi lepores insectamur, incolae [Cubae insulae] venatorio pisce pisces alios capiebant.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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"Suave mari maggno turbantibus aequora ventis," etc.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Horace Walpole 1757
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