edax

Oves, olim mite pecus, nunc tam indomitum et edax ut homines devorent, &c. Morus.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Horace clipped and squared his blocks more carefully before he laid the monument which imber edax, or aquila impotens, or fuga temporum might assail in vain.

The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush 2006

I suspect he is like the cat in some houses: for, suppose the whiskey, the cigars, the sugar, the tea-caddy, the pickles, and other groceries disappear, all is laid upon that edax-rerum of a Mulligan.

Mrs. Perkins's Ball 2006

Try, man, and build up a monument of words as lofty as they are — they, whom “imber edax” and

Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo 2004

But tempus edax rerum, though it had hardly nibbled at her heart or wishes, had been feeding on the freshness of her brow and the bloom of her lips.

Castle Richmond 2004

But I had almost made up my mind to change my plan, and leave all to time — edax rerum — to illuminate or to consume.

Uncle Silas 2003

Fertur pr鎡erea, et alia qu鎑am scripsisse, sed tempus edax rerum, ea nobis abstulit.

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

He has built into the growing structure of truth something outstanding, something immortal, quod non imber edax possit diruere. »

Physiology or Medicine 1926 - Presentation Speech 1965

_Tempus edax rerum_, -- what is that will last always?

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 Various

= The same phrase at _Met_ XV 234; compare as well _edax

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid