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  • Those poppies are from last year, P. somno… that were dipped in poly when I was making the leaf castings.

    Dinner Party « Fairegarden 2009

  • Drossaart Lulofs, H.J. (ed.), 1943, Aristotelis de somno et vigilia liber adiectis vetribus translationibus et Theodori Metochitae commentario, Leiden.

    Byzantine Philosophy Ierodiakonou, Katerina 2008

  • E lecto surgens nudus et absque calceis, accensa lucerna omnia obiens et lustrans, et vix somno indulgens.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Nullus mihi per otium dies exit, partem noctis studiis dedico, non vero somno, sed oculos vigilia fatigatos cadentesque, in operam detineo.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Scip. fit enim fere ut cogitationes nostrae et sermones pariant aliquid in somno, quale de Homero scribit Ennius, de quo videlicet saepissime vigilans solebat cogitare et loqui.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Nemo desidet otiosus, ita nemo asinino more ad seram noctem laborat; nam ea plusquam servilis aerumna, quae opificum vita eat, exceptis Utopiensibus qui diem in 24. horas dividunt, sex duntaxat operi deputant, reliquum a somno et cibo cujusque arbitrio permittitur.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Nunc veterum libris, nunc somno, et inertibus horis

    Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

  • Deinde expergefactus est Iahacob a somno suo, et dixit, Vere est

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

  • * Sarcina saeculi, velut somno adsolet, dulciter premebar, et cogitationes quibus meditabar in te, similes erant conatibus expergisci volentium, qui tamen superati soporis altitudine remerguntur.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • And he shows how faint and languid his endeavours were for reformation and amendment: "Sarcina saeculi, velut somno adsolet, dulciter premebar, et cogitationes quibus meditabar in te, similes erant conatibus expergisci volentium, qui tamen superati soporis altitudine remerguntur."

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

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