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  • [5936] Nec dulces amores sperne puer, neque tu choreas; these men are too distrustful and much to blame, to use such speeches, [5937] Parcite paucorum diffundere, crimen in omnes.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • 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

  • Leg. τῆς ἔνεκα, &c. hujus causa oportuit disciplinam constitui, ut tam pueri quam puellae choreas celebrent, spectenturque ac spectent, &c. 5166.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Ridet patiens si a sanguine, putat se videre choreas, musicam audire, ludos, &c. 2565.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • In musicis supra omnem fidem capior et oblector; choreas libentissime aspicio, pulchraram foeminarum venustate detineor, otiari inter has solutus curis possum.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • It was all the change out of a twenty-pound note which dear old Binnie gave me before we set out, with a quotation out of Horace, you know, about Neque tu choreas sperne puer.

    The Newcomes 2006

  • You have passed the choreas, Master Twentystone, and the young people are dancing without you.

    Roundabout Papers 2006

  • Hinc pari ludo comparent speciosæ puellæ ducere semitas et choreas, nobili gestu nobilissimum ferre poculum lactis equarum in aureis vasis, de quo, ponentes se in genibus, tradunt potum dominis et dominabus.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Hinc pari ludo comparent specios� puell� ducere semitas et choreas, nobili gestu nobilissimum ferre poculum lactis equarum in aureis vasis, de quo, ponentes se in genibus, tradunt potum dominis et dominabus.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Maenalides teneras ducunt per sacra choreas, tibia laeta canit, pendet sacer hircus ab ulmo et iam nudatis ceruicibus exuit exta.

    Redeunt Saturnia Regna Anonymous 1912

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  • See chorea

    August 15, 2017