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  • Her recent translation of Juvenal and Persius for the Loeb Classical Library is very good, and I'm dying to see her new edition of Seneca's De clementia OUP, 2008.

    Braund on the Aeneid on iTunes Miglior acque 2008

  • Her recent translation of Juvenal and Persius for the Loeb Classical Library is very good, and I'm dying to see her new edition of Seneca's De clementia OUP, 2008.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Miglior acque 2008

  • No reprisals have been visited upon those who refuse to swear—he intends future generations to be impressed by his clementia, shades of his divine father!

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • No reprisals have been visited upon those who refuse to swear—he intends future generations to be impressed by his clementia, shades of his divine father!

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • Reipsa reperi nihil esse homini melius facilitate et clementia.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • I liked the demonstration of Caesar's clementia and how it worked differently for Brutus/Cicero and for Vorenus/Pullo i.e. the former were greeted as friends and the later, being lower class, were verbally whipped, even if he let them off.

    HBO's Rome ep 7 2005

  • I liked the demonstration of Caesar's clementia and how it worked differently for Brutus/Cicero and for Vorenus/Pullo i.e. the former were greeted as friends and the later, being lower class, were verbally whipped, even if he let them off.

    Archive 2005-10-01 2005

  • Immensa et maxima ex potestate potentissimi, terribilib鷖que verbis et nunquam finienda innumerabiliue clementia et ineffabili auxilio sanctissimi et pura mente colendissimi tremendissim韖ue modern� 鎡atis monarcha, totius orbis terrarum potentribus sceptra diuidere potens, clementi�, grati鎞ue diuin� vmbra, regnorum prouinciarumue, et vrbium ciuitatumue distributor permultarum: Nos sacratissimus C鎠ar Muzulmanicus Mecch�, id est domus diuin�,

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Altitonantis Dei largiflua clementia, qui est rex Regium, Ego

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • In his early commentary on Seneca's De clementia ([1532], I, 1), he commends Plato for making “God a sort of com - mander of the human race, assigning to each his station and military rank.”

    IDEA OF GOD, 1400-1800 JAMES COLLINS 1968

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