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They take a pride to prank up themselves, to make young men. enamoured, — [5850] captare viros et spernere capias, to dote on them, and to run mad for their sakes,

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

[3269] Nunc captare feras laqueo, nunc fallere visco,

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

_ I. 10.37 ff. notes: "Poemata ... in theatris exhibita imperitae multitudinis applausum captare."

The Dramatic Values in Plautus Wilton Wallace Blanck�� 1916

Pleiadas, Hyadas, claramque Lycaonis Arcton; tum laqueis captare feras et fallere uisco inuentum et magnos canibus circumdare saltus; 20 atque alius latum funda iam uerberat amnem alta petens, pelagoque alius trahit umida lina; tum ferri rigor atque argutae lammina serrae

'In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread' Vergil 1912

Nec conueniebat uilissimorum me spirituum praesidia captare quem tu in hanc excellentiam componebas ut consimilem deo faceres.

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

By calling agriculture and hunting _servilia officia_, Sallust intends, as is remarked by Graswinckelius, little more than was expressed in the saying of Julian the emperor, _Turpe est sapienti, cum habeat animum, captare laudes ex corpore_.

Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War 86 BC-34? BC Sallust 1844

Denique post vi vel senio collapsa palatia, quæ quondam ingentes tenuerunt viri, post diruptos arcus triumphales, (unde majores horum forsitan corruerunt,) de ipsius vetustatis ac propriæ impietatis fragminibus vilem quæstum turpi mercimonio captare non puduit.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6 Edward Gibbon 1765

Denique post vi vel senio collapsa palatia, quæ quondam ingentes tenuerunt viri, post diruptos arcus triumphales, (unde majores horum forsitan corruerunt,) de ipsius vetustatis ac propriæ impietatis fragminibus vilem quæstum turpi mercimonio captare non puduit.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6 Edward Gibbon 1765

_ Suetonius, _Vita Domitiani_, 3: "_Inter initia principatus cotidie secretum sibi horarum sumere solebat, nec quicquam amplius quam muscas captare ac stilo praeacuto configere. _"

Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II Henry Vaughan 1658

Paullatiin tremebunda genis obducere veflem Virginis, et placidara tenebris captare quietem,

P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796