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  • For when lovers swear, Venus laughs, Venus haec perjuria ridet, [5181] Jupiter himself smiles, and pardons it withal, as grave [5182] Plato gives out; of all perjury, that alone for love matters is forgiven by the gods.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Note 27: Salvo Burci, fol. 106rb: "Ille paraliticus qui iacet in lectulo plenus magna paralipsi bene potest pueris assimilari quia plorat simul et ridet et non potest ire nec venire et levatur et portatur sicut puer etiam nec comedere nec bibere potest et datur ei esa et potus sicut puero." back

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • Juvenis pingitur quod amore plerumque juvenes capiuntur; sic et mollis, formosus, nudus, quod simplex et apertus hic affectus; ridet quod oblectamentum prae se ferat, cum pharetra,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Perjuria ridet amantum Jupiter, et ventos irrita ferre jubet Tibul. lib.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Because they cannot ride a horse, which every clown can do; salute and court a gentlewoman, carve at table, cringe and make conges, which every common swasher can do, [1990] hos populus ridet, &c., they are laughed to scorn, and accounted silly fools by our gallants.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • “Ille praeter omnes angulus ridet,” muttered little

    The Virginians 2006

  • Perjuria ridet amantum Jupiter (Jupiter laughs at the perjuries of lovers).

    Quotations 1919

  • Perjuria ridet amantum Jupiter (Jupiter laughs at the perjuries of lovers).

    Romeo and Juliet 1919

  • A shaking of heads. dico unum ridiculum dictum de dictis melioribus, quibus solebam menstruales epulas ante adipiscier: nemo ridet; scivi extemplo rem de compecto geri; ne canem quidem irritatam voluit quisquam imitarier, saltem, si non arriderent, dentes ut restringerent.

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

  • Perjuria ridet amantum Jupiter (Jupiter laughs at the perjuries of lovers).

    Quotations 1919

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