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‘Cum furit atque ferit, Deus olim parcere quærit.’
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Detinuit nostras numerosus Horatius aures, dum ferit Ausonia carmina culta lyra.
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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Hudde ferit, quos Judde terit, dum Cobbe minatur ...
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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The generals on either side, both here and there, offer their vows to Jove, and on either side cheer their warriors. tum pro se quisque id quod quisque potest et valet edit, ferro ferit, tela frangunt, boat caelum fremitu virum, ex spiritu atque anhelitu nebula constat, cadunt volnerum vi viri.
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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There is the hurrying throng of the streets of Rome with all its dangers and discomforts: nobis properantibus opstat unda prior, magno populus premit agmine lumbos qui sequitur; ferit hic cubito, ferit assere duro alter, at hic tignum capiti incutit, ille metretam. pinguia crura luto, planta mox undique magna calcor et in digito clavus mihi militis haeret. nonne vides quanto celebretur sportula fumo? centum convivae, sequitur sua quemque culina.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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It is the brooding natures which make me tremble; in healthier natures it is the refiner's fire which stings and consecrates: '_Sanat dum ferit_.'
Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge Extracted From His Letters And Diaries, With Reminiscences Of His Conversation By His Friend Christopher Carr Of The Same College Arthur Christopher Benson 1893
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It is the brooding natures which make me tremble; in healthier natures it is the refiner's fire which stings and consecrates: 'Sanat dum ferit.'
Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton B A Of Trinity College Cambridge Benson, Arthur C. 1886
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So in the Trinummuns of Plautus, l. 247, “Ibi illa pendentem ferit.”
The Comedies of Terence Literally Translated into English Prose, with Notes Terence 1847
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_Ante ferit quam flamma micet_ (As he strikes, the fire flashes); and when defeated, and slain at the battle of Nancy, the day being cold, with snow on the ground, his triumphant enemy, the Duke of Loreno, said: 'This poor man, though he has great need to warm himself, has not leisure to use his tinder-box.'
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 444 Volume 18, New Series, July 3, 1852 Various 1841
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Hudde ferit quos Judde terit, diem Tibbe juvatur Jakke domos que viros vellit, et ense necat &c.
Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 4 January 1795 1795
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