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  • Petronius in Tacitus, when he was now by Nero's command bleeding to death, audiebat amicos nihil referentes de immortalitate animae, aut sapientum placitis, sed levia carmina et faciles versus; instead of good counsel and divine meditations, he made his friends sing him bawdy verses and scurrilous songs.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Is missus cum praesidio equitum atque peditum, funditorum Balearium; [595] praeterea iere sagittarii et cohors Peligna cum velitaribus armis, itineris properandi causa, neque his secus atque aliis armis adversum tela hostium, quod ea levia sunt, muniti.

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

  • Metellus in iisdem castris quatriduo [298] moratus, saucios cum cura reficit, meritos in proeliis more militiae donat, universos in contione laudat atque agit gratias; hortatur ad cetera, quae levia sunt, [299] parem animum gerant; pro victoria satis jam pugnatum, reliquos labores pro praeda fore.

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

  • Sed consul expletis legionibus cohortibusque auxiliariis in agrum fertilem et praeda onustum [476] proficiscitur; omnia ibi capta militibus donat, dein castella et oppida natura et viris parum munita aggreditur; proelia multa, celerura levia, alia aliis locis facere.

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

  • But there are a few striking exceptions to the rule, notably the beautiful passage of the _Troades_, where Andromache bids her companions in misfortune cease from useless lamentation [190] (409): quid, maesta Phrygiae turba, laceratis comas miserumque tunsae pectus effuso genas fletu rigatis? levia perpessae sumus, si flenda patimur.

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

  • "You perform all the difficult religious duties," wrote Peter to the saint who wrought miracles; "you fast; you watch; you suffer; but you will not endure the easy ones -- you do not love (non vis levia ferre, ut diligas)."

    Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878

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  • Ecce! fupercilio clivofi tramitis undam Hicit? illa cadens raucum per levia murmur Saxa ciet, fcatebrisque arentia temperat arva.

    P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796

  • Eam sententiam prae - sens namns coniirmat si modo non asper - namar indicia non levia, qaae is ipse soppeditat.

    Doctrina numorum veterum 1792

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