sequor

I can say with Ovid, video meliora proboque, deteriora sequor* (* I see and approve better things, but follow the worse which I condemn.).

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

I'm so sorry, Curt, but in the words of the great Ovid: "Video meliora proboque deteriora sequor."

Archive 2009-02-08 2009

"Italiam non sponte sequor," he says to Dido when commanded by Mercury to lift anchor and raise sails.

An Epic Undertaking William Spiegelman 2008

"Italiam non sponte sequor," he says to Dido when commanded by Mercury to lift anchor and raise sails.

An Epic Undertaking 2008

Geiton the hero, a handsome, curly-pated hobbledehoy of seventeen, with his câlinerie and wheedling tongue, is courted like one of the sequor sexus: his lovers are inordinately jealous of him and his desertion leaves deep scars upon the heart.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

One of them is Video meliora, proboque; Detoriora sequor.

Turning point Fred 2007

One of them is Video meliora, proboque; Detoriora sequor.

Archive 2007-07-01 Fred 2007

"Italiam non sponte sequor," he says to Dido when commanded by Mercury to lift anchor and raise sails.

An Epic Undertaking 2007

I am of Catullus 'opinion, and make the same apology in mine own behalf; Hoc etiam quod scribo, pendet plerumque ex aliorum sententia et auctoritate; nec ipse forsan insanio, sed insanientes sequor.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Comedi ad satietatem, gravitas me offendit; parcius edi, non est expletum desiderium; venereas delicias sequor, hinc morbus, lassitudo, &c. 3880.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007