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  • [5815] Bartholomeus Scheraeus, that famous poet laureate, and professor of Hebrew in Wittenberg: I had finished this work long since, but that inter alia dura et tristia quae misero mihi pene tergum fregerunt, (I use his own words) amongst many miseries which almost broke my back, συζυγία ob

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Ita est profecto, et quisquis haec videre abnuis, huic seculi parum aptus es, aut potius nostrorum omnium conditionem ignoras, quibus reciproco quodam nexu laeta tristibus, tristia laetis invicem succedunt.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • [3410] Tu tamen interea effugito quae tristia mentem

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Annuncientur valde tristia, ut major tristitia possit minorem obfuscare.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • O nimium faciles qui tristia crimina cæal [Editor: illegible character]

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Cap. 3. de mentis alienat. maesti degunt, dum tandem mortem quam timent, suspendio aut submersione, aut aliqua alia vi, ut multa tristia exempla vidimus.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Sadness, tristia, had been one of the original seven deadly sins.

    The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006

  • I now consider this unlikely, since the personal adjective _nostra_ with _tristia_ seems unidiomatic; but I still believe that _littera_ is the key to the corruption.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Taking the passage from the _Fasti_ as a parallel, I once thought that Ovid wrote _ipsa locum pro se tristia nostra rogant_ (or _petunt_); for the noun _triste_ compare _Fast_ VI

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • _Tr_ IV x 112-14 'tristia ... carmine fata leuo./quod quamuis nemo est cuius referatur ad aures,/sic tamen absumo _decipioque diem_', and

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

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