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Sed hoc modo ne sufficientia quidem contingit ei quem ualentia deserit, quem molestia pungit, quem uilitas abicit, quem recondit obscuritas.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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Adsit igitur Rhetoricae suadela dulcedinis quae tum tantum recto calle procedit, cum nostra instituta non deserit cumque hac Musica laris nostri uernacula nunc leuiores nunc grauiores modos succinat.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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Nec mirum, si erret, quoties deserit ilium, qui solus est veritas.
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(e) disce aliquid; nam cum subito Fortuna recessit, ars remanet uitamque hominis non deserit umquam.
Moral Distichs Cato 1912
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Eurydica prognata, pater quam noster amauit, uires uitaque corpus meum nunc deserit omne. nam me uisus homo plucher per amoena salicta5 et ripas raptare locosque nouos: ita sola postilla, germana soror, errare uidebar tardaque uestigare et quaerere to neque posse corde capessere: semita nulla pedem stabilibat. exim compellare pater me uoce uidetur10 his uerbis: O gnata, tibi sunt ante gerendae aerumnae, post ex fluuio fortuna resistet.
The Vision of Ilia 1912
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iam iam poturi deserit unda sitim; et Danai proles, Veneris quod numina laesit.
Lines Written in Sickness at Corcyra Tibullus 1912
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Sparge marite nuces: tibi deserit Hesperus Oetam. "
Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica James Boswell 1767
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