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Sed gloriae maximum certamen inter ipsos erat: sic se quisque hostem ferire, murum ascendere, conspici, dum tale facinus faceret, properabat; eas [58] divitias, eam bonam famam magnamque nobilitatem putabant; laudis avidi, pecuniae liberales erant; gloriam ingentem, divitias honestas volebant.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Interea Catilina cum expeditis in prima acie versari, laborantibus succurrere; integros pro sauciis accersere, omnia providere, multum ipse pugnare saepe, hostem ferire; strenui militis et boni imperatoris officia simul exequebatur.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Pessumest, facimus nequiter, ferire malam male discit manus; alia forma esse oportet quem tu pugno legeris.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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A. ille meis pacem dat montibus: ecce per illum, seu cantare iuuat seu ter pede laeta ferire gramina, nullus obest; licet et cantare choreis et cantus uiridante licet mihi condere libro, 130 turbida nec calamos iam surdant classica nostros.
A Singing Match Calpurnius 1912
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Cortius might have added Cat. 7: _sese_ quisque hostem _ferire
Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War 86 BC-34? BC Sallust 1844
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The god to whom they are offered is called Jupiter Feretrius, according to some, from the trophy being carried upon a _feretrum_, or bier, as it is called in the Greek tongue, which then was much mixed with the Latin; but according to others, it is an attribute of Jupiter the Thunderer, for the Romans call striking _ferire_.
Plutarch's Lives, Volume II 46-120? Plutarch 1839
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Profuit xncenfos aedus avertere, et inter Ima ferire pedis falientem iknguine venam:
P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796
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Cyenus ekms, cujus dorso msi - stU. aquSa, quae. egcmidn roslko ferire vt - debsr.
Doctrina nvmorvm vetervm conscripta a Josepho Eckhel .. 1792
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Apqllineis, quos modo oae ferire aigentum, aut illud ignobile meaioniri, nonnisi electmm admenst sunt 'reddiderunt admixta metalli vilioris par -
Doctrina nvmorvm vetervm conscripta a Josepho Eckhel .. 1792
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At auid Semina poftiilcnt Colores quibus di - vcrUniode percuterc & ferire poflint?
T. Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex Titus Lucretius Carus , Thomas Creech , George Gordon Byron Byron 1770
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