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  • In 1266 he returned to Paris, where his friars were under attack both from conservatives in the Theology faculty and from radicals in Arts. Bonaventure began a series of writings devoted primarily to moral matters: Collations on the Ten Commandments (Collationes de decem praeceptis), Lent of

    Amputee 2009

  • Plus mentis paedagogico supercilio abstulit, quam unquam praeceptis suis sapientiae instillavit.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Vel propter ignorantium, quod bonis studiis non sit instructa mens ut debuit, aut divinis praeceptis exculta.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • In vita philosophus, in Epigram, amator, in Epistolis petulanus, in praeceptis severus.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Qui olim cogitabat quae vellet, et pulcherrimis philosophiae praeceptis operam insumpsit, qui universi circuitiones coelique naturam, &c. Hanc unam intendit operam, de sola cogitat, noctes et dies se componit ad hanc, et ad acerbam servitutem redactus animus, &c.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Praecepta medici dant nostris diversa, in medendo non infelices, pharmacis utuntur simplicibus, herbis, radicibus, &c. tota eorum medicina nostrae herbariae praeceptis continetur, nullus ludus hujus artis, quisque privatus a quolibet magistro eruditur.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • His ego praeceptis milites hortabor, neque illos arte colam, [459] me opulenter, neque gloriam meam laborem illorum faciam.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • Illum esse solum in toto orbe terrarum, qui praeceptis etiam salubribus instruere iuvenes quotidie posset.

    The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

  • 'Quod licet, aut artes teneri profitemur amoris -- ei mihi, praeceptis urgeor ipse meis!'

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • = Compare _EP_ I iii 27-30 (to Rufinus, who has written him a letter of consolation on his exile) 'cum bene firmarunt animum _praecepta_ iacentem,/sumptaque sunt nobis pectoris arma tui,/rursus amor patriae _ratione ualentior omni_,/quod tua fecerunt scripta retexit opus', and Sen _Cons Marc_ 2 1 'scio a praeceptis incipere omnes qui monere aliquem uolunt, in exemplis desinere'.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

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