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  • Whilst they give their wives too much liberty to gad abroad, and bountiful allowance, they are accessory to their own miseries; animae uxorum pessime olent, as Plautus jibes, they have deformed souls, and by their painting and colours procure odium mariti, their husband's hate, especially, — [6280] cum misere viscantur labra mariti.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Deum rogat, non pro salute mariti, filii, cognati vota suscipit, sed pro reditu moechi si abest, pro valetudine lenonis si aegrotet.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Corpus Placuit mariti sui tolli ex arca, atque illi quae vacabat cruci adfigi.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Pendet fallax et blanda circa oscula mariti, quem in cruce, si fieri posset, deosculari velit: illius vitam chariorem esse sua jurejurando affirmat: quem certe non redimeret anima catelli si posset.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Nobilis senex Alsatus juvenem uxorem duxit, at ille colico dolore, et multis morbis correptus, non potuit praestare officium mariti, vix inito matrimonio aegrotus.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Dum peregrinus hanc miram rationem de seipso reddit, hospes et uxor ejus, oculis intentis, peregrini nasum contemplantur — Per sanctos sanctasque omnes, ait hospitis uxor, nasis duodecim maximis in toto Argentorato major est! — estne, ait illa mariti in aurem insusurrans, nonne est nasus praegrandis?

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

  • Dum peregrinus hanc miram rationem de seipso reddit, hospes et uxor ejus, oculis intentis, peregrini nasum contemplantur — Per sanctos sanctasque omnes, ait hospitis uxor, nasis duodecim maximis in toto Argentorato major est! — estne, ait illa mariti in aurem insusurrans, nonne est nasus praegrandis?

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

  • Tiberius; where, speaking of Livia, he saith, Et cum artibus mariti simulatione filii bene compostia: for surely the continual habit of dissimulation is but a weak and sluggish cunning, and not greatly politic.

    The Advancement of Learning 2003

  • [21] Boys between the ages of 7 and 15, girls between the ages of 7 and 13, women neither under paternal power (_patria potestas_) nor under marital control (_in manu mariti_).

    The Twelve Tables Anonymous

  • "Chi é stracco di bonaccie, si mariti," answered the lady; "and have you, Bianca, yet to learn that the comeliest mates oftentimes bring any thing but love to the altar?"

    The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various

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