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  • Acidi ructus, cruditates, aestus in praecordiis, flatus, interdum ventriculi dolores vehementes, sumptoque cibo concoctu difficili, sputum humidum idque multum sequetur, &c.Hip. lib. de mel.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Commercia in nundinis noctu hora secunda ob nimios qui saeviunt interdiu aestus exercent.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Posthac omnibus diebus terrae, sementis et messis, et frigus et aestus, et aestas et hyems, et dies et nox non cessabunt.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

  • Ita fui ut interdiu consumeret me aestus, et gelu in nocte, et recedebat somnus meus ab oculis meis.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

  • Hendíadys (‛ εν δια δυοιν, _one through two_) is the use of two nouns joined by a conjunction, in the sense of a noun modified by a Genitive or an Adjective; as, -- febris et aestus, _the heat of fever_; celeritāte cursūque, _by swift running_.

    New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett

  • 'Dura sed emovere loco me tempora grato civilisque rudem belli tulit aestus in arma

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • Unum quodque istorum verbum nummis Philippis aureis non potest auferre hinc a me si quis emptor venerit; nec recte quae tu in nos dicis, aurum atque argentum merumst: fixus hic apud nos est animus tuos clavo Cupidinis. remigio veloque quantum poteris festina et fuge: quam magis te in altum capessis, tam aestus te in portum refert.

    Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

  • Tyrrhenusque fretis immittitur aestus Auernis? haec eadem argenti riuos aerisque metalla30 ostendit uenis atque auro plurima fluxit. haec genus acre uirum, Marsos pubemque Sabellam adsuetumque malo Ligurem Volscosque uerutos extulit, haec Decios Fabios magnosque Camillos,

    Italia, io te saluto Vergil 1912

  • Herculeos, Stygiis et si concurrere monstris fata darent, si Cyaneos raperere per aestus.

    The Marriage of Stella and Violentilla 1912

  • Scilicet hic illi meditantur pondera mores; hic premitur fecunda quies uirtusque serena fronte grauis sanusque nitor luxuque carentes deliciae, quas ipse suis digressus Athenis mallet deserto senior Gargettius horto; 95 haec per et Aegaeas hiemes Hyadumque niuosum sidus et Oleniis dignum petiisse sub astris, si Maleae credenda ratis Siculosque per aestus sit uia: cur oculis sordet uicina uoluptas? hic tua Tiburtes Faunos chelys et iuuat ipsum100

    A Villa at Tibur 1912

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