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  • [6338] Clemens Alexandrinus calls amoris et amicitiae, impletionem et extentionem, the extent and complement of love; and that not for fear or worldly respects, but ordine ad Deum, for the love of God himself.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Dante's love for her was purely spiritual and mystical, the amor amicitiae defined by St. Thomas Aquinas: "That which is loved in love of friendship is loved simply and for its own sake".

    Laura, Beatrice, Regina, Sylvia Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

  • Dante's love for her was purely spiritual and mystical, the amor amicitiae defined by St. Thomas Aquinas: "That which is loved in love of friendship is loved simply and for its own sake".

    Archive 2005-11-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

  • Professor R.J. Tarrant cites similar invocations at _Tr_ I viii 15 'illud _amicitiae_ sanctum et uenerabile nomen', and _EP_ II iii 19-20 'illud _amicitiae_ quondam uenerabile _nomen_/prostat', III ii 43 & III ii 100.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Statium Annaeum, diu sibi amicitiae fide et arte medicinae probatum, orat, provisum pridem venenum, quo damnati publico Atheniensium iudicio exstinguerentur, promeret; adlatumque hausit frustra, frigidus iam artus, et cluso corpore adversum vim veneni.

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • IV v 23-24 'teque, quod est rarum, _praesta_ constanter ad omne/indeclinatae munus amicitiae'; more probably, it is an aftereffect of

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Vergilium vidi tantum; nec amara Tibullo tempus amicitiae fata dedere meae. '

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • 'Nec amara Tibullo tempus amicitiae fata dedere meae.'

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • 'Sed tua me virtus tamen et sperata voluptas suavis amicitiae quemvis sufferre laborem suadet.'

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • The seventeenth and eighteenth are on the same subject, and contain a solemn warning against _regum amicitiae_, appropriate enough in the mouth of the victim of a court intrigue.

    Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

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