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  • Nobilis senex Alsatus juvenem uxorem duxit, at ille colico dolore, et multis morbis correptus, non potuit praestare officium mariti, vix inito matrimonio aegrotus.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Qui rationem corporis non habent, sed cogunt mortalem immortali, terrestrem aethereae aequalem praestare industriam: Caeterum ut Camelo usu venit, quod ei bos praedixerat, cum eidem servirent domino et parte oneris levare illum Camelus recusasset, paulo post et ipsius curem, et totum onus cogeretur gestare (quod mortuo bove impletum) Ita animo quoque contingit, dum defatigato corpori, &c.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Haec si vinum simplex, et per se sumptum praestare possit, nam — [4799] quo me Bacche rapis tui plenum? quam non insaniam, quem non furorem a caeteris expectemus?

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Multi se in inquietudinem praecipitant ambitione et cupiditatibus excaecati, non intelligunt se illud a diis petere, quod sibi ipsis si velint praestare possint, si curis et perturbationibus, quibus assidue se macerant, imperare vellent.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Gymnosophystas vocant, ab exortu ad Occasum praestare, contuentes

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Gymnosophystas vocant, ab exortu ad Occasum praestare, contuentes

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

  • [2] _Studeo_, when the verb following has the same subject, may be construed in three ways -- with the infinitive alone, as _studeo praestare_; with the accusative and infinitive, _studeo me praestare_, as in the present case; or with _ut_, as _studeo ut praestem_.

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

  • Omnes [1] homines, qui sese student [2] praestare ceteris animalibus, summa ope [3] niti decet, ne vitam silentio transeant veluti pecora, quae natura prona [4] atque ventri obedientia finxit.

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

  • Ovidii Medea videtur mihi ostendere quantum vir ille praestare potuerit, si ingenio suo temperare quam indulgere maluisset [277].

    The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: Augustus Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

  • _Genetrix nato te filia Nerei. _ hoc est, soles hoc praestare matribus.

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

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