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  • Harken also to Solomon, and beware of hasty gathering of riches; Qui festinat ad divitias, non erit insons.

    The Essays 2007

  • Imperatorem non oportet latere, confestim mittuntur per reges aut barones nuncij in dromedarijs aut equis, qui celerrimè festinant ad certa hospitia, ad hoc ipsum, velut ábsque numero per imperium instituta: Isque nuncius hospitio appropinquans, et cornu resonans, dum auditor paratur minicius alter, qui de manu suscipiens literas, per recentem dromedarium festinat ad aliud hospitium, et sic in breui tempore perferuntur rumores ad curia aures.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Habent autem in illis, et vlterioribus partibus hunc vsum: si quando castrum ab hostibus fuerit sic obsessum, quòd Dominus eius non possit emittere nuncium amico suo remotè moranti, recipit columbam olim in castro, vel domo amici natam, vel educatam, quam hic sibi per certam prouisionem allatam detinuit incaueatam, et scriptas quas vult literas alligans collo columbæ, dimittit liberam volare, quæ protinus festinat ad focum propriæ natiuitatis.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Solomon hath pronounced it both in censure, Qui festinat ad divitias non erit insons; and in precept, “Buy the truth, and sell it not; and so of wisdom and knowledge;” judging that means were to be spent upon learning, and not learning to be applied to means.

    The Advancement of Learning 2003

  • Habent autem in illis, et vlterioribus partibus hunc vsum: si quando castrum ab hostibus fuerit sic obsessum, qu騞 Dominus eius non possit emittere nuncium amico suo remot� moranti, recipit columbam olim in castro, vel domo amici natam, vel educatam, quam hic sibi per certam prouisionem allatam detinuit incaueatam, et scriptas quas vult literas alligans collo columb�, dimittit liberam volare, qu� protinus festinat ad focum propri� natiuitatis.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Imperatorem non oportet latere, confestim mittuntur per reges aut barones nuncij in dromedarijs aut equis, qui celerrim� festinant ad certa hospitia, ad hoc ipsum, velut 醔sque numero per imperium instituta: Isque nuncius hospitio appropinquans, et cornu resonans, dum auditor paratur minicius alter, qui de manu suscipiens literas, per recentem dromedarium festinat ad aliud hospitium, et sic in breui tempore perferuntur rumores ad curia aures.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Propterea vero iteratum est somnium ipsi Pharaoni duabus vicibus, quia firma est res a Deo, et festinat Deus facere eam.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

  • Metellus, postquam de rebus Vagae actis comperit, paulisper moestus e conspectu abit; deinde, ubi ira et aegritudo permixta sunt, cum maxima cura ultum ire injurias festinat.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • 'Da veniam subitis: non displicuisse meretur, festinat, Caesar, qui placuisse tibi.'

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • Vel Judam non videtis, quo modo non dormit, sed festinat tradere me Judaeis?

    The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book Various

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