commodus

Comments thanks for linking to a picture of the marble bust of commodus. for what it is worth, to my layman's eye, it looks like a victorian bust, all that elaborate fussy detail in costume and hair.

Ancient or modern? 2006

Non deerit surgenti tuæ virtuti commodus aliquando et idoneus praeco.

Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day Ferdinand Gregorovius

C. est—fateor, Meliboee, —deus: sed nec mihi Phoebus70 forsitan abnuerit; tu tantum commodus audi: scimus enim, quam te non aspernetur Apollo.

A Singing Match Calpurnius 1912

Hunc in omnibus stupris, hunc in fanorum expilationibus, hunc in impuris conviviis principera adhibebat; tantamque habebat morum similitudo conjuncnorum atque concordiam, ut Apronius, qui aliis inhumanus ac barbarus, isti uni commodus ac disertus videretur; ut quem omnes odissent neque videre vellent sine eo iste esse non posset; ut quum alii ne conviviis quidem iisdem quibus Apronius, hic iisdem etiam poculis uteretur, postremo, ut, odor

Life of Cicero Volume One Anthony Trollope 1848

We already know that there will be at least one new face in the women's final: Serena Williams is the only former champion left in the draw, and none of the other contenders have previously reached the final here. shnitzle. what a strong match by nando. again. first he utterly clobbers the not-so-big-name opponents and now he beats muzz and tsonga. whoever wins the last QF could have his hands full with this version of nando. arggh, sucks that i have to tape the rafa-commodus encounter, but i have to run soon. and it´s always so difficult to watch the tape later and * not* take a peek at the result.

Peter Bodo's TennisWorld 2009

Iii illis autcm locis & confiniis, ubi cuique pro - priaspoffiderecuppas&di - otas eft injundum, quili - bet cain parte, codcmque in loco inquo aut ab anti - quofiericonfuevitjautfors ciconceffit, fuam cuppam collocet, ncillaimpedime - to cife poffit crebris vedu - risautctiam incommodet continuo re. & commean - tcs 5 Unusqiiisque autcm finitis vindemiis foveam e terra fubcuppa fuaeffofla, fi commodus vicBufus, aut neceflitas aliqua id exigere vidcatur, fub poena unius floreni, oppleto & compla - iiato«

Nicolai Myleri ab Ehrenbach Metrologia. Hoc est, de jure statuendi de mensuris, ponderibus & moletrinis. Ubi in specie quoque. De lapide terminali & torculis, tam privatis quam publicis ac bannalibus, singularia quaedam & non vulgaria exhibentur & variae quaestiones explicantur. Tractatus practicus. In quo quicquid vulgari aut exotica lingua traditum, in linguam latinam transversum est Myler von Ehrenbach, Johann Nikolaus, 1610-1677 1683