canere

Ante victoriam canere triumphum = to sell the skin before you have caught the bear.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

There was a similarly large celebration when Louis was born: "civitas Parisii in qua natus est, tanto gaudio fuit repleta, quod per septem dies … populus totius civitatis, laudes debitas solventes creatori suo, ducendo choreas canere non cessavit" (Delaborde, 1: 81 — 82).

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

Haec ubi dixit, paululum commoratus, signa canere jubet, [336] atque instructos ordines in locum aequum deducit.

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

_Nondum umbraticus doctor ingenia deleverat, cum Pindarus novemque lyrici Homericis versibus canere non timuerunt.

A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Caius Cornelius Tacitus

The burden of a song, chorussed by the entire company, followed the stanza sung by the vocalist, and this soloist, having finished, had licence to appoint the next singer, "canere ad myrtum," by handing him the myrtle branch.

A History of Nursery Rhymes Percy B. Green

St. Isidore says: "Laudes, hoc est, Alleluia, canere" (De div. offic., xiii).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

(Nec sanæ fidei vel doctrinæ aliquid obstat missam in eadem slavonica lingua canere), or to chant the holy gospels or divine lessons from the

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

Although the word is derived from canticulum, (diminutive of canticum, a song, from the Latin canere, to sing), it is used in the

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

For example, the same thing is treated more than once; _Jubar_ is twice illustrated by the same quotation, [34] _Canis_ is twice derived from _canere_; [35] _merces_ is differently explained in two places; [36] _Lympha_ is derived both from

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

Ante victoriam canere triumphum = to sell the skin before you have caught the bear.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855