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  • As with my whole life philosophy, I have way too many interests and a queri-some mind to stick with just one pursuit.

    Are You Reading Too Fast? 2009

  • Miserum est ab eo laedi, a quo non possis queri, a miserable thing 'tis to be injured of him, from whom is no appeal: [3992] and not safe to write against him that can proscribe and punish a man at his pleasure, which Asinius

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Besides, how do you think they spell ahmed queri in hebrew?

    Jews For John | Jewschool 2004

  • 'Spero me secutum in libellis meis tale temperamentum, ut de illis queri non possit, quisquis de se bene senserit, cum salva infimarum quoque personarum reverentia ludant.'

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • The verb _queri_ can take a direct object, or be constructed with _de_ + ablative, but not both; this would in effect give the verb two objects.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Postquam illos videt queri de avaritia magistratuum, accusare senatum, quod in eo auxilii nihil esset, miseriis suis remedium mortem expectare:

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

  • = Ovid similarly calls Vestalis as his witness at vii 3-4 'aspicis en praesens quali iaceamus in aruo,/nec me testis eris falsa solere queri'.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Missus es Euxinas quoniam, Vestalis, ad oras, ut positis reddas iura sub axe locis, aspicis en praesens quali iaceamus in aruo, nec me testis eris falsa solere queri; accedet uoci per te non irrita nostrae, 5

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • As in the letter to Gallio, mention of Ovid's personal misfortune is confined to one short passage near the start of the poem: aspicis en praesens quali iaceamus in aruo, nec me testis eris falsa solere queri

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Satius me queri illo modo servitutem: hodie qui fuerim liber, cum nunc potivit pater servitutis, his qui verna natus est queritur.

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

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