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  • “Jupiter est quodcumque vides; quodcumque moveris.”

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • The virtuous Cato says the same thing: “Jupiter est quodcumque vides quocumque moveris.” —

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Tu es Petrus et super hanc petram edificabo ecclesiam meam et portae inferi non praevalebunt adversus eam et quodcumque ligaveris super terram erit ligatum et in caelo et quodcumque solveris super terram erit solutum et in caelo.

    Hamilton: "A Liturgy of Reform" 1996

  • For example, great Lucretius tells us, in _De Rerum Natura_, this following thing: _quodcumque suis mutatumfinibus exit, continuo hoc mors est illius quodfuit ante_.

    The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

  • Iuppiter est, quodcumque vides, quodcumque moveris? 'vii.

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • Many manuscripts however offer _uacas_ (for which compare Prop II xxxii 7 'quodcumque uacabis'), and the corruption to the third person seems an easy one.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Augustus 'apotheosis was similar to those of Hercules, Aeneas, Romulus, and Julius Caesar: compare the descriptions at _Met_ IX 262-72' interea quodcumque fuit populabile flammae/Mulciber abstulerat, nec

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • 'O miseras hominum mentes, o pectora caeca! qualibus in tenebris vitae quantisque periclis degitur hoc aevi quodcumque est! nonne videre nil aliud sibi naturam latrare, nisi utqui corpore seiunctus dolor absit, mente fruatur iucundo sensu cura semota metuque?'

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • But Lucretius 'true tendency is to express an ordered vision of the life of man, with great vigour of real poetic image and often acute observation. quod petiere, premunt arte faciuntque dolorem corporis et dentes inlidunt saepe labellis osculaque adfligunt, quia non est pura voluptas et stimuli subsunt qui instigant laedere id ipsum quodcumque est, rabies unde illaec germina surgunt ...

    Dante Thomas Stearns 1920

  • Iuppiter est quodcumque vides quodcumque moveris. sortilegis egeant dubii semperque futuris casibus ancipites; me non oracula certum, sed mors certa facit. pavido fortique cadendum est; hoc satis est dixisse Iouem.

    Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

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