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  • Si quis se laesum clamabit, aut conscientiam prodit suam, aut certe metum, Phaedr. lib.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Et metum ideo deam sacrarunt ut bonam mentem concederet.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Ad desperationem saepe ducit haec melancholia, et est frequentissima ob supplicii metum aeternumque judicium; meror et metus in desperationem plerumque desinunt.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • [1227] In a word, Nihil magis quaerunt quam metum et admirationem hominum; [1228] and as another hath it, Dici non potest, quam impotenti ardore in homines dominium, et Divinos cultus maligni spiritus affectent.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Camden in Wiltsh. miserum senem ita fame et calamitatibus in carcere fregit, inter mortis metum, et vitae tormenta,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Intemperies facit succum nigrum, nigrities, obscurat spiritum, obscuratio spiritus facit metum et tristiam.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Certainly possible, but let's be honest, it's just an ad metum argument, and we should note it come hot on the heels of an ad misericordiam argument in the very first paragraph.

    Archive 2007-04-01 2007

  • Black Lady (Bia t 'metum [62]), and she received the boy kindly.

    Philippine Folk-Tales Fletcher Gardner

  • Hæc convenit iis, qui nihil sibi Christo carius aliquid existimant: propter servitium sanctum, quod professi sunt, seu propter metum gehennæ, vel gloriam vitæ æternæ, mox ut aliquid imperatum a majore fuerit, ac si divinitus imperetur, moram pati nesciunt in faciendo. '

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 Various

  • Sed ego comperior Bocchum magis Punica fide [612] quam ob ea, quae praedicabat, simul Romanos et Numidam spe pacis attinuisse multumque cum animo suo volvere solitum, Jugurtham Romanis an illi Sullam traderet; libidinem [613] adversum nos, metum pro nobis suasisse.

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

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