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  • Habuit saeva animi symptomata quae impediunt concoctionem,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Dum Carthaginienses incolumes fuere, jure omnia saeva patiebamur; hostes ab latere, vos amici procul, spes omnis in armis erat.

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

  • 'Ubi saeva indignatio cor ulterius lacerare nequit' (Where fierce indignation can no longer tear his heart).

    A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher

  • The "saeva indignatio" of which he spoke as lacerating his heart, and which he dares to inscribe on his tombstone -- as if the wretch who lay under that stone waiting God's judgment had a right to be angry, -- breaks out from him in a thousand pages of his writing, and tears and rends him.

    Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American Various

  • And yet one can barely suppress a sigh at all this luxury of levity, when he remembers that dreadful "_Ubi saeva indignatio ulterius cor lacerare nequit_," and reflects upon the hope deferred which vented itself in that stinging couplet, --

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 Various

  • Hispanos praeterea tale facinus fecisse, sed imperia saeva multa ante perpessos.

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

  • Like most of the great satirists of the world, Butler's saeva indignatio was aroused by the daily conflicts between reason and stupidity, between candor and disingenuousness, with all their mutations of hypocrisy, guile, deceit, and sham.

    Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism Henry Seidel Canby 1919

  • In my judgment there is hardly anything in common between his genial humor and the saeva indignatio, the savage wrath, of that arch-inquisitor of human nature.

    Criticisms and Interpretations. IV. By William Samuel Lilly 1917

  • These things -- the presence or the absence of the revolutionary conscience -- are matters, when one gets to the bottom of it, of individual temperament, and James, the kindest and most charitable of men in his personal life, was simply untouched by that particular spark of "saeva indignatio."

    Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations John Cowper Powys 1917

  • Guy de Maupassant had the easy magnanimity of the Latin races in regard to sex matters, but in regard to the sufferings of men and of animals from the denial of their right to every sort of natural joy, there smouldered in him a deep black rage -- a _saeva indignatio_

    Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations John Cowper Powys 1917

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