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  • If it be true that the principal part of beauty is in decent motion, certainly it is no marvel, though persons in years seem many times more amiable; pulchrorum autumnus pulcher; for no youth can be comely but by pardon, and considering the youth, as to make up the comeliness.

    The Essays 2007

  • _Praecipuum_ could be defended by _EP_ III i 13-14 (to the Pontus) 'nec tibi pampineas autumnus porrigit uuas,/cuncta sed immodicum tempora frigus habet', but _praecipuus_ in fact always seems to have the notion of

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • If it be true that the principal part of beauty is in decent motion, certainly it is no marvel though persons in years seem many times more amiable; pulchrorum autumnus pulcher [beautiful persons have a beautiful autumn]; for no youth can be comely but by pardon, 3 and considering the youth as to make up the comeliness.

    XLIII. Of Beauty 1909

  • For Layton, this is just the latest setback in what can only be described as his "autumnus horribilis" - a bad political season that could still have unpleasant surprises in store for the NDP.

    Thestar.com - Home Page Chantal Hébert 2010

  • For Layton, this is just the latest setback in what can only be described as his "autumnus horribilis" - a bad political season that could still have unpleasant surprises in store for the NDP.

    Thestar.com - Home Page Chantal Hébert 2010

  • If it be true that the principal part of beauty is in decent motion, certainly it is no marvel, though persons in years seem many times more amiable; pulchrorum autumnus pulcher; for no youth can be comely but by pardon, and considering the youth, as to make up the comeliness.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • interitura, simul30 pomifer autumnus fruges effuderit, et mox

    Tow Poems on the Return of Spring Horace 1912

  • horrida, desertis undique uasta locis. non poma autumnus, segetes non educat aestas

    Corsica 1912

  • The last line in particular has at once a conciseness and a wealth of suggestion that is rare in any post-Ovidian poet: iam nunc algentes autumnus fecerat umbras atque hiemem tepidis spectabat Phoebus habenis, iam platanus iactare comas, iam coeperat uvas adnumerare suas defecto palmite vitis: ante oculos stabat, quidquid promiserat annus. [

    Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

  • But after David Miliband's autumnus horribilis, some Labour MPs are asking whether his younger brother, Ed, will overtake him in the future Labour leadership stakes, and even whether the Cabinet's band of brothers might become rivals for their party's crown. "

    British Blogs 2009

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