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Suscitans a terra inopem, et de stercore erigens pauperem:
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Scio, dares, novi tuom. sed nisi ames, non habeam tibi fidem tantam; eo quod amas tamen nunc agitas sat tute tuarum rerum; sin liber sies egone ut opem mi ferre posse putem inopem te? non potest.
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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Heia, Megadore, haud decorum facinus tuis factis facis, 220 ut inopem atque innoxium abs te atque abs tuis me inrideas. nam de te neque re neque verbis merui ut faceres quod facis.
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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Panaque Siluanumque senem Nymphasque sorores. illum non populi fasces, non purpura regum flexit et infidos agitans discordia fratres, aut coniurato descendens Dacus ab Histro, 40 non res Romanae perituraque regna; neque ille aut doluit miserans inopem aut inuidit habenti. quos rami fructus, quos ipsa uolentia rura sponte tulere sua, carpsit, nec ferrea iura insanumque forum aut populi tabularia uidit.
'God made the country but man made the town' Vergil 1912
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Yet Dryden, in the preface, declaims against the “inopem me copia fecit,” and similar jingles of Ovid.
The Dramatic Works of John Dryden Scott, Walter, Sir 1882
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Yet Dryden, in the preface, declaims against the "_inopem me copia fecit_," and similar jingles of Ovid.
The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author Walter Scott 1801
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Would he think of _inopem me copia fecit_, [11] and a dozen more of such expressions, pour'd on the neck of one another, and signifying all the same thing?
Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations Edmund Spenser 1730
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Would he think of _inopem me copia fecit_, and a dozen more of such expressions, poured on the neck of one another, and signifying all the same thing?
The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 2 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes John Dryden 1665
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[10] Sed iure Mucius. ego autem mirari [satis] non queo unde hoc sit tam insolens domesticarum rerum fastidium. non est omnino hic docendi locus; sed ita sentio et saepe disserui, Latinam linguam non modo non inopem, ut vulgo putarent, sed locupletiorem etiam esse quam Graecam. quando enim nobis, vel dicam aut oratoribus bonis aut poetis, postea quidem quam fuit quem imitarentur, ullus orationis vel copiosae vel elegantis ornatus defuit?
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Non res Romanae, perituraque regna: neque ille Aut doluit miferans inopem, aut invidit habenti.
P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796
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