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  • Some are of opinion that this love cannot be cured, Nullis amor est medicabilis herbis, it accompanies them to the [5559] last, Idem amor exitio est pecori pecorisque magistro.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Ignotus pecori, 'as eulogised by the virgin-chorus in the beautiful epithalamium of Catullus, might be recognised in the youthful' religieuse 'if only human passion could be excluded; but the story of Heloise and Abelard is not a solitary proof of the superiority of human nature over an impossible and artificial spirituality.

    The Superstitions of Witchcraft Howard Williams

  • Frigida uix caelo noctis decesserat umbra, cum ros in tenera pecori gratissimus herba: 15 incumbens tereti Damon sic coepit oliuae.

    Pharmaceutria Vergil 1912

  • Virgil thinks it sometimes a beauty to imitate the license of the Greeks, and leave two vowels opening on each other, as in that verse of the Third Pastoral: Et succus pecori, et lac subducitur agnis.

    Dedication Vergil 1909

  • Quis pecori imperitet, quern tot armenta sequantur; non defuit

    Thomas Hariot Stevens, Henry, 1819-1886 1885

  • Maiira tamen partus pecori doiores aife - rentes inteHigere.

    P. Ovidii Nasonis Fastorum libri VI. Ovid, Publius Ovidius Naso, Gottlieb Erdmann Gierig 1812

  • Aut illae pecori frondem, aut pafloribus umbras Sufficiunt; faepemque fatis, et pabula melli:

    P. Virgilii Maronis opera: emendabat et notulis illustr. G. Wakefield Virgil, Publius Vergilius Maro 1796

  • Axcebis gravido pecori, armentaque pafces Sole recens orto, aut nodem ducentibus aflris.

    P. Virgilii Maronis opera: emendabat et notulis illustr. G. Wakefield Virgil, Publius Vergilius Maro 1796

  • Nec lupus inftdias pecori, nec retia cervis Ulla dolum meditantur: amat bonus otia Daphnis.

    P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796

  • Arcebis gravido pecori, armentaque pafces Sole recens orto, aut nodem ducentibus aftris.

    P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796

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