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  • I procul, et longas carpere perge vias. — — — sed fuge tutus eris.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • It was better to carpere diem and its sweet loves and pleasures, and to leave the railers to grumble, or the seniors to advise, at their ease.

    The Virginians 2006

  • In fact, the original Latin verb carpere means “to pluck.”

    The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

  • In fact, the original Latin verb carpere means “to pluck.”

    The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

  • The same use of _carpere_ at ix 121-22 'fortuna est impar animo, talique libenter/exiguas _carpo_ munere pauper opes' and _Am_ I viii 91 'et soror et mater, nutrix quoque _carpat_ amantem'.

    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

  • Quod sit in his eadem sententia, Brute, libellis, carmina nescio quem carpere nostra refers: nil nisi me terra fruar ut propiore rogare, et quam sim denso cinctus ab hoste loqui.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • IVVENES at libet innuptis ficto te carpere questu. quid tum, si carpunt, tacita quem mente requirunt?

    Hymen, O Hymenaee 1912

  • Si nihil animus praesentiret in posterum, e coaevis sibi scientiis aliquid solatii carpere fas esset, secumque perituris delectari: sed in hoc tam exiguo vitae curriculo, et tam brevi, quid est, tam cito periturum, quod impleret animum, in infinita saeculorum spatia duraturum?

    Inspiration and Interpretation: Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford: With Preliminary Remarks: Being an Answer to a Volume Entitled "Essays and Reviews." 1813-1888 1861

  • It was better to carpere diem and its sweet loves and pleasures, and to leave the railers to grumble, or the seniors to advise, at their ease.

    The Virginians William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

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