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Scilicet omnibus artibus antistat spes lucri, et formosior est cumulus auri, quam quicquid

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Instutitur ista exercitatio, non lucri, sed valetudinis et oblectamenti ratione, et quo animus defatigatus respiret, novasque vires ad subeundos labores denuo concipiat.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Finxit, vanum etiam mendacemque improba finget. he will betray his father, prince, and country, turn Turk, forsake religion, abjure God and all, nulla tam horrenda proditio, quam illi lucri causa (saith [2283] Leo Afer) perpetrare nolint.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Penelopes, nebulones, Alcinoique, modo tot annos in academia insumpserint, et se pro togatis venditarint; lucri causa, et amicorum intercessu praesentantur; addo etiam et magnificis nonnunquam elogiis morum et scientiae; et jam valedicturi testimonialibus hisce litteris, amplissime conscriptis in eorum gratiam honorantur, abiis, qui fidei suae et existimationis jacturam proculdubio faciunt.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Typographi huius odium fuit, & ex re illicita lucri auiditas.

A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

Typographi huius odium fuit, & ex re illicita lucri auiditas.

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

Treasure trove to be claimed must be hidden -- _lucri aut metus causâ_.

Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease

Nihil est lucri quod me hodie facere mavelim, quam illum cubantem cum illa opprimere, ambo ut necem.

Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

The type of theft is taking to one's own user It used to be, and sometimes still is, thought that the taking must be lucri catesa, for the sake of some advantage to the thief.

The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888

Which fully accords with Juvenal's idea, to wit -- lucri bonus est odor ex re qualibet (the smell of gain is good from anything whatever,) which must of course include cards and dice, and the same sentiment is taught in the lines,

A Controversy Between "Erskine" and "W. M." on the Practicability of Suppressing Gambling. 1862