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  • Non tuus hinc capiet venter plus quam meus — — — an evil sickness, Solomon calls it, and reserved to them for an evil, 12 verse.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Yes, and then Amphitryon will think he is lying, and never came here as he ordered. erroris ambo ego illos et dementiae 470 complebo atque omnem Amphitruonis familiam, adeo usque, satietatem dum capiet pater illius quam amat. igitur demum omnes scient quae facta. denique Alcumenam Iuppiter rediget antiquam coniugi in concordiam.

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

  • FUTURE capiam capiēmus ca´piar capiē´mur capiēs capiētis capiē´ris, - re capiē´minī capiet capient capiē´tur capien´tur

    Latin for Beginners Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge 1900

  • So let this letter lie awhile, till my heart is more used to it, and after some days or weeks I will find as cold and quiet a moment as I can, and by standing as far off you as I shall be able, see more -- 'si _minus propè_ stes, te capiet magis.'

    The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 Robert Browning 1850

  • a terris spatium sat est et mundi nimium malis? quis tantum capiet nefas, fratrum quis superans locus pontum Tartara sidera95 regna unas capiet tria?

    The Saying of Orphens 1912

  • So let this letter lie awhile, till my heart is more used to it, and after some days or weeks I will find as cold and quiet a moment as I can, and by standing as far off you as I shall be able, see more ” 'si minus prope stes, te capiet magis.'

    The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 1898

  • Amalphitani.] [Footnote 70: Nec ipsa capiet eum (the emperor Otho) in qua ortus est pauper et pellicea Saxonia: pecunia qua pollemus omnes nationes super eum invitabimus: et quasi Keramicum confringemus, (Liutprand in Legat.p. 487.)

    History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765

  • He observes in another place, qui caeteris praestant Venetici sunt et Amalphitani.] 70 Nec ipsa capiet eum (the emperor Otho) in qua ortus est pauper et pellicea Saxonia: pecunia qua pollemus omnes nationes super eum invitabimus: et quasi

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

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