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Ergo dies aderat Parcarum conditus albo uellere, quo Stellae Violentillaeque professus25 clamaretur hymen. cedant curaeque metusque, cessent mendaces obliqui carminis astus, fama tace: subiit leges et frena momordit ille solutus amor: consumpta est fabula uulgi, et narrata diu uiderunt oscula ciues.

The Marriage of Stella and Violentilla 1912

Yet I am sure it will be a most unpleasent Seat, full of Thorns, Briers, thistles, murmuring, fault finding, calumny, obliqui, discrage for I ought I know, and what not.

Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 14 February 1796 1796

The law is the straight rule, that rectum which is index sui et obliqui -- that which points out the right and the wrong; it is the proper use and intendment of the law to open our wound, and therefore not likely to be the remedy.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

Rectum est index sui et obliqui -- The line which shows itself to be straight shows also what line is crooked.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

_Quocirca & prima latio, Ortus & Interitus causa non est: Sed obliqui Circuli latio: ea nam [que] & continua est, & duobus motibus fit: _ In Englishe, thus.

The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara John Dee 1567

_Rectum sui et obliqui index_: And here the application being made, there is a discovery of the falsehood and crookedness of most men’s hearts.

The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640

The only words in this passage, which can admit of any dispute/are, ** obliqui, aut intorsLis sinuati, "which Folard trans - lates, by" salient & re-entering angles, "and which he discredits, because, he says,

Illustrations of Sterne, with other essays and verses 1812