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  • Lib. de victimis: amans Deum, sublimia petit, sumptis alis et in coelum recte volat, relicta terra, cupidus aberrandi cum sole, luna, stellarumque sacra militia, ipso Deo duce.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Set me free, O Lord, from my own vices, so that in my own heart I may be desirous of only Thy will, and be aware of Thy summons if it come ... ut solius tuae voluntatis mihi cupidus sim, et vocatinonis tuae conscius si digneris me vocare.

    A Canticle for Leibowitz Miller, Walter M. 1959

  • "Libera me, Domine, ab vitiis meis, ut solius tuae voluntatis mihi cupidus sim, et vocationis ..."

    A Canticle for Leibowitz Miller, Walter M. 1959

  • GERUNDIVE CONSTRUCTION. cupidus urbem videndī, _desirous of cupidus urbis videndae; seeing the city_. dēlector ōrātōrēs legendō, _I am dēlector ōrātōribus legendīs charmed with reading the orators_.

    New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett

  • The suffix - idus denotes _a state_; as, -- calidus, _hot_; timidus, _timid_; cupidus, _eager_.

    New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett

  • On a little lower plane there is the excitement of adventure and of travel that gives allurement to the idea of war in the mind of the soldier, and which also glorifies the soldier; the sensation hunger; the _cupidus rerum novarum_; the ecstasies of nature and freedom, suggested by the very term "in the field."

    The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History G.E. Partridge

  • Lines such as (261) -- si pro me patriam ferro flammisque petistis, nunc pugnate truces gladiosque exsolvite culpa. nulla manus belli mutato iudice pura est. non mihi res agitur, sed vos ut libera sitis turba precor, gentes ut ius habeatis in omnes. ipse ego privatae cupidus me reddere vitae plebeiaque toga modicum compomere civem, omnia dum vobis liceant, nihil esse recuso. invidia regnate mea;

    Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

  • Investigatam diutissime quaestionem, quantum nostrae mentis igniculum lux diuina dignata est, formatam rationibus litterisque mandatam offerendam uobis communicandamque curaui tam uestri cupidus iudicii quam nostri studiosus inuenti.

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

  • But he was, if not exactly _cupidus novarum rerum_ in Church and State, very ready to entertain them; he was curiously deficient in logic; and though the religious sense was strong in him, he held, and transmitted to his son, the heresy -- the foundation of all heresies -- that religion is something that you can

    Matthew Arnold George Saintsbury 1889

  • Nicolaus secutus est, cæpitque ex Mathematicis gloriam sibi ac divitias parare, æque paupertatis impatiens, ac fortunæ melioris cupidus, quam dum

    Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study 1886

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