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  • Besides, nihil in hac amoris voce subtimendum, there is nothing here to be excepted at; love is a species of melancholy, and a necessary part of this my treatise, which I may not omit; operi suscepto inserviendum fuit: so Jacobus Mysillius pleadeth for himself in his translation of Lucian's dialogues, and so do I;

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Nemo desidet otiosus, ita nemo asinino more ad seram noctem laborat; nam ea plusquam servilis aerumna, quae opificum vita eat, exceptis Utopiensibus qui diem in 24. horas dividunt, sex duntaxat operi deputant, reliquum a somno et cibo cujusque arbitrio permittitur.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Et ego quidem ab vno Fratrum Prædicatorum, videlicet à Fr. Simone de S. Quintino, iam ib illo itinere regresso, gesta Tartarorum accepi, illa duntaxat, quæ superius per diuersa loca iuxta congruentiam temporum huic operi inserui.

    The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004

  • Et ego quidem ab vno Fratrum Pr鎑icatorum, videlicet � Fr. Simone de S. Quintino, iam ib illo itinere regresso, gesta Tartarorum accepi, illa duntaxat, qu� superius per diuersa loca iuxta congruentiam temporum huic operi inserui.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Aprilis obiit magister Johanni (sic) filius Erwini magistri operi huius ecclesie.

    Historical Sketch of the Cathedral of Strasburg Anonymous

  • _Aen_ X 792 'si qua _fidem_ tanto est operi _latura_ uetustas', but the true meaning of this line is 'if antiquity can ever win belief for a deed so grand' (Jackson Knight); the idiom cannot be fitted into the present passage with acceptable meaning.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Much that the plan of his book compels him to omit, he promises to publish later in a larger work, _e. g._ ii. 99, 3, 'iusto servemus operi,' ii. 114, 4, 'iustis voluminibus ordine narrabimus.'

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • 'Sceptra tamen sumpsi, curaque tragoedia nostra crevit, et huic operi quamlibet aptus eram.'

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • Divine work par excellence: "Nihil operi Dei præponatur", we read in ch. xliii.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

  • "Atqui," inquam, "nullo existimauerim modo ut fortuita temeritate tam certa moueantur, uerum operi suo conditorem praesidere deum scio nec umquam fuerit dies qui me ab hac sententiae ueritate depellat."

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

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