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  • Nice new mashups! oops, the instamatic link leads me to loo & placido

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  • _Fast_ II 17-18 (to Augustus) 'ergo ades et placido paulum mea munera uultu/respice, pacando _si quid_ ab hoste _uacat_'.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • _Met_ XV 691-93 (of Aesculapius) 'restitit hic agmenque suum _turbaeque sequentis_/_officium_ placido uisus dimittere uultu/corpus in

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Oceane o placido conplectens omnia fluctu, tu legem terris moderato limite signas, tu pelagi quodcumque facis fontisque lacusque. flumina quin etiam te norunt omnia patrem, 5 te potant nubes ut reddant frugibus imbris;

    To the Sea Anonymous 1912

  • And when those who are so much the arbiters of literary merit, as in a considerable degree to influence the publick opinion, review an authour's work, placido lumine [196], when I am afraid mankind in general are better pleased with severity, he may surely express a grateful sense of their civility [197].

    Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • The stream of narration is sluggish, if varied by times with pleasing reflections (_viridesque placido aequore sylvas_); we are forced to do our own rowing, and only when the current is hemmed in by some narrow gorge of the poet's personal consciousness do we feel ourselves snatched along on the smooth but impetuous rush of unmistakable inspiration.

    Among My Books Second Series James Russell Lowell 1855

  • The mother turned to the opposite one, which seems asleep; her charge was instantly pacified; and smiling through tears, extended its little arm to stroke the shaggy head, whispering in subdued accents, as if afraid to awake the monster, '_O come placido! non mordero quello, mamma.

    Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. Adam White 1848

  • Quando le sere al placido from Verdi's Luisa Miller .

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  • It is well known that the placido based devices construct the axial, tangential and refractive power maps by using the radius of curvature information.

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