cogis

News at Eleven: Robert Fagles's ear for linguistic currency is evident in his working of one of many well-known lines from the fourth book, improbe Amor, quid non mortalia pectora cogis: Love, you tyrant!

News at Eleven: [Robert] Fagles's ear for linguistic currency Rus Bowden 2007

[4690] Improbe amor quid non mortalia pectora cogis?

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

In full "Quid non mortalia pectora cogis auri sacra fames?"

Notes 2002

Very good! negat hercle ille ultimus.accedito. si non ubi sedeas locus est, est ubi ambules, quando histrionem cogis mendicarier. ego me tua causa, ne erres, non rupturus sum. vos qui potestis ope vestra censerier, accipite relicuom: alieno uti nil moror.

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

Causas nequicquam nectis inanes quid me alta silentia cogis

Bacon is Shake-Speare Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence 1875

_Quid non mortalia pectora cogis, auri sacra fames?

The Biglow Papers James Russell Lowell 1855

_Quid, non mortalia pectora cogis, auri sacra fames?

The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855

* [1808] Quid non mortalia pectora cogis, auri sacra fames!

The Ten Commandments 1692

Quid non mortalia pectora cogis, auri sacra fames!

The Ten Commandments 1692

* [2256] Quid non mortalie pectora cogis, auri sacra fames?

The Lord's Prayer 1692