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  • _ 4, 'Ubi ... mihi reliquam aetatem a re publica procul habendam decrevi, non fuit consilium socordia atque desidia bonum otium conterere, neque vero agrum colundo aut venando servilibus officiis intentum aetatem agere; sed ... statui res gestas populi Romani carptim, ut quaeque memoria digna videbantur, perscribere.'

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • Igitur ubi animus ex multis miseriis atque periculis requievit et mihi reliquam aetatem a re publica procul habendam decrevi, non fuit consilium socordia atque desidia bonum otium conterere; [30] neque vero agrum colendo aut venando, servilibus officiis, [31] intentum aetatem agere; sed

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

  • "Iidem Samolum herbam nominavere nascentem in humidis: et hanc sinistra manu legi a jejunis contra morbos suum boumque, nec respicere legentem: nec alibi quam in canali, deponere, ibique conterere poturis."

    Notes and Queries, Number 15, February 9, 1850 Various

  • That word, from the Latin conterere, “to grind, bruise,” has a theological connotation, as a realization of a failure to respond to God’s grace.

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • That word, from the Latin conterere, “to grind, bruise,” has a theological connotation, as a realization of a failure to respond to God’s grace.

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • That word, from the Latin conterere, “to grind, bruise,” has a theological connotation, as a realization of a failure to respond to God’s grace.

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • That word, from the Latin conterere, “to grind, bruise,” has a theological connotation, as a realization of a failure to respond to God’s grace.

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • a 5 iii X Digitizedby VjOOQIC in huiusniodi fcriptiorie partem aetatis huraa - nae magnam conterere, atque adeo in coaccr - varidis iis omnibus, quae fcriptorum arguunt: virtutes vei peccata, et in trifti catalogorum conficiendorum Ihidio quafi confenefcere.

    Bibliotheca historica 1782

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