elogium

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73 Solonis quidem sapientis est elogium, quo se negat velle suam mortem dolore amicorum et lamentis vacare.

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  1. Same as elogy. But if Jesus of Nazareth had raised an army in defence of their liberty, and had destroyed the Romans, … then they would willingly have given him that title, which was set up only in derision as the Elogium of his Cross, Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews. Stillingfleet, Sermons, I. viii.

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  • Such was the honourable elogium, on this young chieftain, pronounced by an accurate observer, whose praise was never lightly bestowed. —  Life Of Johnson, Volume 5
  • In his youth he had commended Beza in some anapest verses; extolling him as one of the most zealous defenders of the truth: he afterwards retracted this elogium, and wished it buried in eternal oblivion. —  The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius
  • 73 Solonis quidem sapientis est elogium, quo se negat velle suam mortem dolore amicorum et lamentis vacare. —  Cato Maior de Senectute with Introduction and Notes
  • Such was the honourable elogium, on this young chieftain, pronounced by an accurate observer, whose praise was never lightly bestowed There is neither justice of peace, nor constable in Rasay. —  Life of Johnson, Volume 5 Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774)
  • It was this elogium that gave occasion to the reply (taken notice of in —  Letters on England
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