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  • But the fairest objects and enticings proceed from men themselves, which most frequently captivate, allure, and make them dote beyond all measure upon one another, and that for many respects: first, as some suppose, by that secret force of stars, (quod me tibi temperat astrum?)

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Spiritus temperat, calorem excitat, naturalem virtutem corroborat, juvenile corpus diu servat, vitam prorogat, ingenium acuit, et hominum negotii quibuslibet aptiorem reddit.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Nunc tepid� aqu� erumpunt, nunc feruentissim�, nunc temperat�.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • For after the hore-frost, ensued the hot and temperat sun, whereby the little birds weening that the spring time had bin come, did chirp and sing in their steven melodiously: the mother of stars, the parent of times, and mistres of all the world: The fruitfull trees rejoyced at their fertility: The barren and sterill were contented at their shadow, rendering sweete and pleasant shrills!

    The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius

  • _ Wee know and finde by experience no time here with us more wholsome and more temperat (especially when the Etesian, or Easterly, winds do blow) then the Canicular dayes: so that, wee finde by observation, that those diseases which are bred in the moneths of June and July, doe end in

    Spadacrene Anglica The English Spa Fountain Edmund Deane

  • Howsoeuer ye take it the _dactil_ is commendable inough in our vulgar meetres, but most plausible of all when he is sounded vpon the stage, as in these comicall verses shewing how well it becommeth all noble men and great personages to be temperat and modest, yea more then any meaner man, thus.

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • Das Climat betrefend ist ziemlich gut und gesund, nicht so gar warm wie vermeint, Junius, Jullius und august: sind heiss, dennoch geht bisweilen ein kühler Wind, die übrige Zeit des Jahres ist zimlich temperat, im anfang muss man den Tribut mit Einem Fieber zahlen.

    Christoph von Graffenried's Account of the Founding of New Bern. Edited with an Historical Introduction and an English Translation by Vincent H. Todd, Ph.D. University of Illinois in Cooperation with Julius Goebel, Ph.D., Professor of Germanic Languages University of Illinois 1920

  • Saturnumque gravem nostro Iove frangimus una: nescio quod certe est quod me tibi temperat astrum.

    Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

  • Hyblam quod sapit Atticosque flores, quod nidos olet alitis superbae; nomen nectare dulcius beato, 5 quo mallet Cybeles puer uocari et qui pocula temperat Tonanti: quod si Parrhasia sones in aula, respondent Veneres Cupidinesque; nomen nobile, molle, delicatum10 uersu dicere non rudi uolebam: sed tu syllaba contumax repugnas. dicunt Eiarinon tamen poetae, sed Graeci quibus est nihil negatum et quos APES” APES decet sonare.

    Earinos Martial 1912

  • Illum et qui nutu superas nunc temperat arcis progeniem claram terris partitus et astris, laetus Idumaei donauit honore triumphi, 140 dignatusque loco uictricis et ordine pompae non uetuit, tenuesque nihil minuere parentes. atque idem in cuneos populo deduxit equestris, mutauitque genus laeuaeque ignobile ferrum exuit et celso natorum aequauit honorem.

    To Claudius Etruscus on the Death of his Father 1912

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