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  • Fuerunt mihi lacrimae meae panis die ac nocte, dum dicitur mihi quotidie: "Ubi est Deus tuus?"

    Archive 2009-06-01 bls 2009

  • "Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt," reads the epitaph from Virgil that the authors, all army medical officers, have placed above a photograph of a weeping soldier covering his eyes with his fingers.

    The War We Don't Want to See Halpern, Sue 2008

  • Twitter photos love-notes e-mail design hosted hinc illae lacrimae

    natinski Diary Entry natinski 2004

  • “‘Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt’: translate.”

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • “‘Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt’: translate.”

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • _Sunt lacrimae rerum_, as the ex-teacher Sufyan would have said, and Saladin had ample opportunity in the next many days to contemplate the tears in things.

    The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

  • _Met_ VI 565-66 'dat gemitus fictos commentaque funera narrat,/et lacrimae _fecere fidem_' and Caesar _BC_ II 37 1 'nuntiabantur haec eadem Curioni, sed aliquamdiu _fides fieri_ non poterat: tantam habebat suarum rerum fiduciam'.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • (Hamilton and Cartwright, grandfather of Sir Richard, were Legislative Councillors who would not always do as they were told hinc illae lacrimae et illa vituperatio).

    What Is A Canadian Citizen? 1929

  • His mulcet dictis taciteque inspirat honorem conubii. redeunt animo iam dona precesque195 et lacrimae uigilesque uiri prope limina questus,

    The Marriage of Stella and Violentilla 1912

  • _Hinc lacrimae aetatum_ -- hence the darkness and miseries of the Christian Era!

    The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908

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