exordia

Now we have countdowns, prologues, preambles and exordia.

Can’t Wait for Wednesday 2007

They were seeking to catch some lyric exordia as they flew by immersed in the billows of the air.

Peace 2000

TRYGAEUS They were seeking to catch some lyric exordia as they flew by immersed in the billows of the air.

Peace 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

They were seeking to catch some lyric exordia as they flew by immersed in the billows of the air.

The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

Thebais urgebat priscorum exordia vatum; tu cantus stimulare meos, tu pandere facta heroum bellique modos positusque locorum monstrabas.

Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

Et quoniam docui cunctarum exordia rerum qualia sint et quam uariis distantia formis sponte sua uolitent aeterno percita motu, quoue modo possint res ex his quaeque creari, hasce secundum res animi natura uidetur35 atque animae claranda meis iam uersibus esse et metus ille foras praeceps Acheruntis agendus, funditus humanam qui uitam turbat ab imo omnia suffundens mortis nigrore neque ullam esse uoluptatem liquidam puramque relinquit.

Epicurus and the Fear of Death Lucretius 1912

` There is a beauty in all the works of nature, 'he observes in one of his wittiest exordia, ` which we are unable to define, though all the world is convinced of its existence: so in every action and station of life there is a grace to be attained, which will make a man pleasing to all about him and serene in his own mind.'

A Book of Scoundrels 1896

'There is a beauty in all the works of nature,' he observes in one of his wittiest exordia, 'which we are unable to define, though all the world is convinced of its existence: so in every action and station of life there is a grace to be attained, which will make a man pleasing to all about him and serene in his own mind.'

A Book of Scoundrels Charles Whibley 1894

A very fatal book was one entitled _Opus de anno primitivo ab exordia mundi, ad annum Julianum accommodato, et de sacrorum temporum ratione.

Books Fatal to Their Authors 1892

May-morning exordia, in which he was but following a fashion -- faithfully observed both by the French trouveres and by the

Chaucer Adolphus William Ward 1880