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  • [3377] Somne quies rerum, placidissime somne deorum, Pax animi, quem cura fugit, qui corpora duris

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Note 166: Canon, fol. 67ra: "Cum autem ambulare inceperit, et moveri, duris motibus non erit permittendus, nec ad ambulandum, et sedendum est ponendus antequam secundum naturam ei desiderium fiat, ne cruribus ipsius, et dorso nocumentum accidat." back

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • And as the two gentlemen partake of that exhilarating liquor, the elder confides gaily to his guest the reason why he prefers taking coffee at the hotel to the coffee at the great Cafe of the Redoute, with a duris urgens in rebus egestass! pronounced in the true French manner.

    The Newcomes 2006

  • Nulla dies adeo est australibus umida nimbis non intermissis ut fluat imber aquis, nec sterilis locus ullus ita est ut non sit in illo mixta fere duris utilis herba rubis; nil adeo Fortuna grauis miserabile fecit 5 ut minuant nulla gaudia parte malum. ecce domo patriaque carens oculisque meorum, naufragus in Getici litoris actus aquas, qua tamen inueni uultum diffundere causam possim fortunae nec meminisse meae.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Italiae duris funera temporibus, ... proxima supposito contingens Umbria campo me genuit terris fertilis uberibus. '

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • They had different Masses, different rules, and different tonsures, "alii enim habebant coronam, alii caesariem", and celebrated different Easters, some on the fourteenth, some on the sixteenth, of the moon, "cum duris intentionibus" -- which perhaps means "obstinately".

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

  • Me quoque nunc similis stimulat furor edere uersu tempora, cum duris uersare ligonibus arua conueniat, cum ueliuolo dare carbasa ponto et cum uiticomo crinem tondere Lyaeo.

    Prologue to the Aratea Avienus 1912

  • Italiae duris funera temporibus, cum Romana suos egit discordia ciuis; 5

    His Birthplace 1912

  • Cymothoen. timet illa ferum seseque sequenti subripit et duris elabitur uda lacertis.

    The Marriage of Honorius and Maria Claudian 1912

  • Aliis mixta quaedam pro animorum qualitate distribuit; quosdam remordet ne longa felicitate luxurient, alios duris [157] agitari ut uirtutes animi patientiae usu atque exercitatione confirment.

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

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