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  • Pro dimidia enim marca ludum experiar, ultra hoc petens, ut si vivus de palaestra evasero, victum a quocumque vestrum recipiam dum vixero: quia, sicut dicitur, “Majorem caritatem nemo habet, quam ut animam suam ponat suis pro amicis.”

    The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

  • Et cum totum illud opus cessare putaretur, ecce in medio prorupit unus stipulosus vernaculus, statura modicus, sed efferus, dicens: Ecce ego! quis me conducet intrare cum operariis istis ad hunc ludum theatralem?

    The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

  • Galen commends ludum parvae pilae, to play at ball, be it with the hand or racket, in tennis-courts or otherwise, it exerciseth each part of the body, and doth much good, so that they sweat not too much.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • So saith the same person, "Furta etiam faciebam de cellario parentum et de mensa, vel gula imperitante, vel ut haberem quod darem pueris, ludum suum mihi, quo pariter delectabantur tamen, vendentibus," lib.i. cap.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • * Furta etiam faciebam de cellario parentum et de mensa, vel gula imperitante, vel ut haberem quod darem pueris, ludum suum mihi, quo pariter delectabantur tamen, vendentibus: [5512] 1

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • But as he was late in starting, he found on his coming that the school had been given to another; in his leisure he caused to be represented at Dunstable a play, or miracle, of St. Catherine, "quendam ludum de Sancta Katerina quem miracula vulgariter appellamus."

    A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

  • He has already had some suggestions, including "_Lude ludum_," from "an eminent scholar," but, like the late Mr. TOOLE in one of his most famous songs, still he is not happy.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 12, 1917 Various

  • 'Causa fuit pater his, qui macro pauper agello noluit in Flavi ludum me mittere, ... sed puerum est ausus Romam portare docendum artis quas doceat quivis eques atque senator semet prognatos.

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • Fortuna saeuo laeta negotio et ludum insolentem Iudere pertinax50

    An Invitation to Maecenas Horace 1912

  • TV, Andromacha, per ludum manu lasciuola ac tenellula capiti meo, trepidans libens insoita plexti munera. ii

    From the Erotopaegnia Laevius 1912

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