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  • = Compare _EP_ I iii 27-30 (to Rufinus, who has written him a letter of consolation on his exile) 'cum bene firmarunt animum _praecepta_ iacentem,/sumptaque sunt nobis pectoris arma tui,/rursus amor patriae _ratione ualentior omni_,/quod tua fecerunt scripta retexit opus', and Sen _Cons Marc_ 2 1 'scio a praeceptis incipere omnes qui monere aliquem uolunt, in exemplis desinere'.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Qui si quando contra nos aciem struens ualentior incubuerit, nostra quidem dux copias suas in arcem contrahit, illi uero circa diripiendas inutiles sarcinulas occupantur.

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • "Contexe," inquam, "cetera; nam quin naturalis officii potens eo qui idem nequeat ualentior sit, nullus ambigat."

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • "Si quis igitur pedibus incedere ualens ambulet aliusque cui hoc naturale pedum desit officium, manibus nitens ambulare conetur, quis horum iure ualentior existimari potest?"

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • "Quidni fateare, cum eam cotidie ualentior aliquis eripiat inuito?

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

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