brevitas

Socrates, and as I have often believed that Vita longa, ars brevis, ¹ is a more suitable apothegm than the one in more general use, and in connection with the word brevitas, it is, I think, of some small interest -- it is, I think, of some small interest

Movie Speech 1951

Diei brevitas conviviis, noctis longitudo stupris conterebratur.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Interdiu quidem collum vinctum est, et manus constricta, noctuvero totum corpus vincitur, ad has miserias accidit corporis faetor, strepitus ejulantium, somni brevitas, haec omnia plane molesta et intolerabilia.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

_Commentarii_ -- "notes" -- on the events of his campaigns, which might be useful as materials for history; but there was no exaggeration in the splendid compliment paid it a few years later by Cicero, that no one in his senses would think of recasting a work whose succinct, perspicuous, and brilliant style -- _pura et inlustris brevitas_ -- has been the model and the despair of later historians.

Latin Literature 1902

An excellent critic says [12] -- "Quo saepius eum perlegebam, eo magis me detinuit cum dicendi nitor et brevitas tum perspicacitas iudicii sensusque vorax et ad agendum accommodatus, quibus omnibus genuinam repraesentat nobis civis Romani imaginem."

The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879

[22] "_Plerisque hominibus Gallis prae magnitudine corporum suorum brevitas nostra contemptui est_."

The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879

Kiris defcriptio: vita brevitas: carpcnda voluptates.

Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera Horace, Ludovicus Desprez, André Dacier 1793

Ex omnibus audlo - ris fententiis fana iudicandi ratio elucet: difplicet autem nimia brevitas vel feftinatio.

Bibliotheca historica. A.I.G. Meuselio ita digesta ut pæne novum opus videri possit 1793

Balthazar Alamos, & Carolus Coloma, quibus haud tam fplendor, quam brevitas deeft.

C. Cornelii Taciti opera omnia 1790

I scarce know any adage more grateful than 'Grata brevitas'.”

Anne Bradstreet and Her Time Campbell, Helen, 1839-1918 1890