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Democritus solet noctes et dies apud se degere, plerumque autem in speluncis, sub amaenis arborum umbris vel in tenebris, et mollibus herbis, vel ad aquarum crebra et quieta fluenta,
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“Sunt geminae somni portae: quarum altera fertur Cornea, qua veris facilis datur exitus umbris: Altera candenti perfecta nitens elephanto, Sed falsa ad coelum mittunt insomnia manes:” so if we put on sobriety and attention, we shall find it a sure maxim in knowledge, that the more pleasant liquor (“of wine”) is the more vaporous, and the braver gate (“of ivory”) sendeth forth the falser dreams.
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Platonizing in certain works — the De umbris idearum
PLATONISM IN THE RENAISSANCE JOHN CHARLES NELSON 1968
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De duobus dierum generibus: simulq_ue_ de umbris, et horis, quæ apud Palladium, in alia epistola ad lectorem.
Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University Addison Van Name
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Caesareum et queruli quondam uice functus amici, 30 nunc conuiua leuis monstrataque reddere uerba tam facilis! quo tu, Melior dilecte, recluso numquam solus eras. at non inglorius umbris mittitur: Assyrio cineres adolentur amomo et tenues Arabum respirant gramine plumae35
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Cicero says: "_Multa vident pictores in umbris et in eminentia, quæ nos non videmus_."
Donatello, by Lord Balcarres David Lindsay Crawford 1905
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Thence he journeyed to Paris, where in 1582 he produced one of his more important works, _De umbris idearum_.
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-- Jacobus Alkindus de umbris et causis diversitatum aspectuum.
The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee And the Catalog of His Library of Manuscripts John Dee 1567
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Pontus, et oftrifcri fauces tentantur A6ydi. tibra dic fomniquc pares ubi fecerit lioras Et medium luci atque umbris jam dividit orbem;
P. Virgilii Maronis opera: emendabat et notulis illustr. G. Wakefield Virgil, Publius Vergilius Maro 1796
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Nimirum credunt veterum fie pofle maritum x8l Ire ipfas comites, taedamque novare fub umbris.
The Works of Soame Jenyns ...: Including Several Pieces Never Before Published. To which are ... 1790
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