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  • Varro will, Anus dum ludit morti delitias facit, 'tis Charon's match between [6258] Cascus and Casca, and the devil himself is surely well pleased with it.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • A high brow like unto the bright heavens, coeli pulcherrima plaga, Frons ubi vivit honor, frons ubi ludit amor, white and smooth like the polished alabaster, a pair of cheeks of vermilion colour, in which love lodgeth; [4914] Amor qui mollibus genis puellae pernoctas: a coral lip, suaviorum delubrum, in which

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • In the original text: Omne vafer vitium ridenti Flaccus amico Tangit, et admissus circum praecordia ludit.

    Defence of Poesie 1992

  • Or the Satirick, who Omne vafer vitium ridenti tangit amico {81}, who sportingly, never leaveth, till he make a man laugh at follie; and at length ashamed, to laugh at himself; which he cannot avoyde, without avoyding the follie? who while Circum praecordia ludit {82}, giveth us to feele how many headaches a passionate life bringeth us to?

    Defence of Poesie 1992

  • Louaniense Heinsii (Burman) _ ille Iugurthino clarus Cimbroque triumpho, 45 quo uictrix totiens consule Roma fuit, in caeno latuit Marius cannaque palustri, pertulit et tanto multa pudenda uiro. ludit in humanis diuina potentia rebus, et certam praesens uix facit hora fidem.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • _Circum pracordia ludit_, giveth us to feel, how many headaches a passionate life bringeth us to.

    English literary criticism Various

  • 'Secuit Lucilius urbem, te, Lupe, te, Muci, et genuinum fregit in illis; omne vafer vitium ridenti Flaccus amico tangit, et admissus circum praecordia ludit, callidus excusso populum suspendere naso.'

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • "He's the scientific naturalist that called you popinjay," continued the major -- "_ludit convivia miles_, as a body may say."

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 Various

  • _Circum praecordia ludit_, "he plays about the heartstrings," said Persius, long before any of these, when the actual Horace was still fresh in the memory of men.

    Horace and His Influence Grant Showerman

  • Item litteram C quidam in quibusdam dictionibus non latine ecferunt, sed ita crasse, ut non discernas quid dicant: ut puta siquis dicat _sic ludit_, ita hoc loquitur ut putes eum in secunda parte orationis _cludere_ dixisse, non _ludere_: et item si contra dicat illud contrarium putabis.

    The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it Frances Ellen Lord

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