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  • There are faint traces of the _Romana gravitas_ in lines such as iamque tibi veniet tempus quo maxima rerum nobilior sit Roma mails (iii.

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

  • The same situation similarly described at _Fast_ I 81-82 'iamque noui praeeunt fasces, noua purpura fulget,/et noua conspicuum pondera sentit ebur'; compare as well _Med Fac_ 13 'matrona _premens altum_ rubicunda sedile' and _Met_ V 317 'factaque de uiuo _pressere_ sedilia saxo'.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Novem diés secundissimó ventó cursum tenuérunt, iamque in cónspectum patriae suae vénerant, cum Ulixés lassitúdine cónfectus (ipse enim gubernábat) ad quiétem capiendam recubuit.

    Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader John [Editor] Kirtland

  • = Compare _EP_ III vii entire (an apology to his friends for the monotony of his verse), and especially the opening lines: 'Verba mihi desunt eadem tam saepe roganti,/iamque pudet uanas fine carere preces./taedia consimili fieri de carmine uobis,/quidque petam cunctos edidicisse reor'.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Mónstrum mágná celeritáte ad lítus contendit, iamque ad locum appropinquábat ubi puella stábat.

    Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader John [Editor] Kirtland

  • Alternatively, the word could be equivalent to _noua_ 'new, unfamiliar', as at _Fast_ III 455 'iamque indignanti _noua frena_ receperat ore'.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Take this from the Alexander: adest, adest fax obuoluta sanguine atque incendio: multos annos latuit, ciues, ferte opem et restinguite. iamque mari magno classis cita texitur, exitium examen rapit: adueniet, fera ueliuolantibus navibus complebit manus litora.

    Introduction 1912

  • A. iam neque damnatos metuit iactare ligones fossor et inuento, si fors dedit, utitur auro; nec timet, ut nuper, dum iugera uersat arator, ne sonet offenso contraria uomere massa, 120 iamque palam presso magis et magis instat aratro.

    A Singing Match Calpurnius 1912

  • Asteris ante dapes, nocte Asteris, Asteris ortu, quantum non clamatus Hylas. iamque aspera coepit flectere corda libens et iam sibi dura uideri.

    The Marriage of Stella and Violentilla 1912

  • Brevī tempore [4] omnia erant parāta, iamque [5] quīnta hōra erat.

    Latin for Beginners Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge 1900

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