Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word equitem.

Examples

  • Newmarket, he almost forgot how ‘Post equitem sedet atra cura.’

    On Forsyte 'Change 2004

  • _, 'M. Annaeus Lucanus patrem habuit M. Annaeum M.lam ex provincia Baetica Hispaniae interioris Cordubensem equitem Romanum, illustrem inter suos, notum Romae et propter Senecam fratrem, clarum per omnes virtutes virum, et propter studium vitae quietioris ...

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • _, 'Laberium asperae libertatis equitem Romanum Caesar quingentis milibus invitavit, ut prodiret in scaenam et ipse ageret mimos, quos scriptitabat.

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • Was it not Lord Palmerston, by the way, who once made that capital classic hit at the versatile chief of the Adullamites in Parliament during a debate on the budget, when he said -- "Atra cura post _equitem_ sedet?"

    She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History.

  • But if the "post equitem sedet atra cura" was the maxim in the days of Augustus, the man who drives the slower cabriolet in the days of

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 337, October 25, 1828 Various

  • Hegio then began to buy up Elean captives, hoping to get hold of one that he could exchange for his son -- the captive son, that is: for he has no idea that this man at his home is his own child. et quoniam heri indaudivit, de summo loco 30 summoque genere captum esse equitem Aleum, nil pretio parsit, filio dum parceret: reconciliare ut facilius posset domum, emit hosce e praeda ambos de quaestoribus.

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

  • Medus et Phoebi propioris Indus et Dahae Parthis equitem minati, anxius sceptrum tenet et mouentis cuncta diuinat metuitque casus10 mobilis rerum dubiumque tempus.

    Mutability 1912

  • Pierides: magni nunc erit oris opus. iam negat Euphrates equitem post terga tueri

    The Triumpbs of Augustus in the East 1912

  • 'Post equitem sedet atra cura,' -- true only of such scrubby hacks as old Horace could have known.

    Lucretia — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • 'Post equitem sedet atra cura,' -- true only of such scrubby hacks as old Horace could have known.

    Lucretia — Volume 06 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.