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  • Illorum quoque hominum, a quorum consortio abhorrent, praesentia amovenda, nec sermonibus ingratis obtudendi; si quis insaniam ab insania sic curari aestimet, et proterve utitur, magis quam aeger insanit.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Molliter ac suaviter aeger tractetur, nec ad ea adigatur quae non curat.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • His agitatus furiis, aeger ad mare provolat: in fluctus se precipitem, dat: periculum factum spem non fefellit: decies iteratum, felix faustumque evasit.

    Travels through France and Italy 2004

  • = The substantive _aeger_ is quite common in both verse and prose, but always with the meaning 'physically ill'; even when used, as here, with a transferred meaning, the sense of metaphor is still present.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • _ 59, 'At ex altera parte C. Antonius pedibus aeger, quod proelio adesse nequibat, M. Petreio legato exercitum permittit.'

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • Compare _RA_ 313-14 'curabar propriis aeger Podalirius herbis,

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • _ 19, 2, 'Illius pio maternoque nutricio per longum tempus aeger convalui.'

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • At ex altera parte G. Antonius, pedibus aeger, [342] quod proelio adesse nequibat, M. Petreio legato [343] exercitum permittit.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • Sed ubi Jugurtha per legatos pecunia temptare bellique quod administrabat asperitatem ostendere coepit, animus aeger avaritia [172] facile conversus est.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • Eutychis error principium sumpsit, ita ad eundem finem relabitur, ut secundum Eutychen quoque non sit saluatum genus humanum, quoniam non is qui aeger esset et saluatione curaque egeret, adsumptus est.

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

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