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  • In this liturgical Latin the requirements demanded by Hilary for the style of the Christian exegete are realized to the full: Non enim secundum sermonis nostri usum promiscuam in his oportet esse facilitatem: "There is no place here for the loose facility of the colloquial language" (In Ps. 13.1).

    Liturgical English and the Hieratic Tradition 2009

  • Nos autem gloriari oportet in Cruce Domini nostri Iesu Christi:

    Nos autem gloriari bls 2009

  • Per hoc enim quod intelligimus vel gaudemus, ad aliquod obiectum aliqualiter nos habere oportet: amor vero aliquid alicui vult; hoc enim amare dicimur cui aliquod bonum volumus, secundum modum praedictum.

    Quitting Smoking 2009

  • Nos autem gloriari oportet in Cruce Domini nostri Iesu Christi:

    Archive 2009-09-01 bls 2009

  • XI 12, 11, tutti, con avvolgente metafora, bisognosi dell'assiduità del buon coltivatore: «nec coluisse semel sufficit, sed semper insistere oportet qui singularem aliquem vel agri vel animi fructum cupit» Fam.

    Francesco Petrarca, Canzoniere Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, ed & comm. Rosanna Bettarini (Turin, 2005) Miglior acque 2008

  • XI 12, 11, tutti, con avvolgente metafora, bisognosi dell'assiduità del buon coltivatore: «nec coluisse semel sufficit, sed semper insistere oportet qui singularem aliquem vel agri vel animi fructum cupit» Fam.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Miglior acque 2008

  • [3935] Meditari secum oportet quo pacto adversam aerumnam ferat,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Cyropaedia. cum Pantheae forman evexisset Araspus, tanto magis, inquit Cyrus abstinere oportet, quanto pulchrior est.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • [6612] Magillianus the Jesuit will not admit of conference with a heretic, but severity and rigour to be used, non illis verba reddere, sed furcas, figere oportet; and Theodosius is commended in

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Cum sanguinem detrahere oportet, deliberatione indiget.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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