quaestus

[6122] Alia quaestus gratia matrimonium corrumpit,

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Carnificinam exercent, one saith they tyrannise over men's consciences more than any other tormentors whatsoever, partly for their commodity and gain; Religionem enim omnium abusus (as [6405] Postellus holds), quaestus scilicet sacrificum in causa est: for sovereignty, credit, to maintain their state and reputation, out of ambition and avarice, which are their chief supporters: what have they not made the common people believe?

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Mater, is quaestus mihi est: lingua poscit, corpus quaerit; animus orat, res monet.

Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

Non tu scis? hic noster quaestus aucupi simillimust. auceps quando concinnavit aream, offundit cibum; aves adsuescunt: necesse est facere sumptum qui quaerit lucrum; saepe edunt: semel si sunt captae, rem solvent aucupi. itidem his apud nos: aedes nobis area est, auceps sum ego, 219,220 esca est meretrix, lectus inlex est, amatores aves;

Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

Irenaeus, lib.iv. cap. 26, oportere ait eos, qui absistunt a principali successione et quocunque loco colligunt, suspectos habere, vel quasi haereticos et malae sententiae, vel quasi scindentes et elatos et sibi placentes; aut rursus ut hypocritas quaestus gratia et vanae gloriae hoc operantes.

NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

Itaque cum apud nos admonerentur Sacerdotes de hoc peccato, desierunt apud nos privatae Missae, cum fere nullae privatae Missae nisi quaestus causa fierent.

The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

Improbantur ii quaestus, qui in odia hominum incurrunt, ut portitorum, ut feneratorum.

A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885

Id satis habitum ad fructus ex agris vectandos; quaestus omnis patribus indecorus visus.

A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885

: “Primum improbantur ii quaestus, qui in odia hominum incurrant: ut portitorum ut foeneratorum.”

The Life of Cicero Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1881

Cato says that the profits of agriculture are particularly pious or just, (maximeque pius quaestus,) and according to Varro the old Romans "called the same earth Mother and Ceres, and thought that they who cultivated it led a pious and useful life, and that they alone were left of the race of King Saturn."

Walden, or Life in the woods 1854