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  • Parum vero distat sapientia virorum a puerili, multo minus senum et mulierum, cum metu et superstitione et aliena stultitia et improbitate simplices agitantur.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Infantium quidem et senum, quia calor eorum naturalis debilis est … Itaque regimen infantium incipiemus a regimine mulierum praegnantium. back

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

  • Anthony Fumanellus, lib. de regimine senum, Curio in his comment on Schola Salerna, Godefridus

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • So as it is not possible but this quality of knowledge must fall under popular contempt, the people being apt to contemn truths upon occasion of controversies and altercations, and to think they are all out of their way which never meet; and when they see such digladiation about subtleties, and matters of no use or moment, they easily fall upon that judgment of Dionysius of Syracusa, Verba ista sunt senum otiosorum.

    The Advancement of Learning 2003

  • Te cano, Patria, candida, libera; te referet portus et exulum et tumulus senum; libera montium vox resonet.

    A Handbook for Latin Clubs Susan Paxson

  • 'Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus, rumoresque senum severiorum omnes unius aestimemus assis.'

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • As one instinct after another becomes furious or disorganised, cowardly or criminal, under these artificial restrictions, the public and private conscience turns against it all its forces, necessarily without much nice discrimination; the frank passions of youth are met with a grimace of horror on all sides, with _rumores senum severiorum_, with an insistence on reticence and hypocrisy.

    The Life of Reason George Santayana 1907

  • M.senum, and it is not improbable that he alludes to M. Antonius

    Plutarch's Lives Volume III. 46-120? Plutarch 1839

  • So as it is not possible but this quality of knowledge must fall under popular contempt, the people being apt to contemn truths upon occasion of controversies and altercations, and to think they are all out of their way which never meet; and when they see such digladiation about subtleties, and matters of no use or moment, they easily fall upon that judgment of Dionysius of Syracusa, Verba ista sunt senum otiosorum.

    The Advancement of Learning Francis Bacon 1593

  • 1088: Infantium quidem et senum, et ab infirmitate convalescentium corpora, necesse est habere regimen proprium: quia debilis est virtus eorum.

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

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