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  • Nay, Seneca adds niceness and satiety: Cogita quamdiu eadem feceris; mori velle, non tantum fortis aut miser, sed etiam fastidiosus potest.

    The Essays 2007

  • Cogita quamdiu eadem feceris; cibus, somnus, ludus per hunc circulum curritur; mori velle non tantum fortis, aut miser, aut prudens, sed etiam fastidiosus potest.

    The Advancement of Learning 2003

  • This species is closely allied to the _P. fastidiosus_ of Saussure, and, notwithstanding the difference in colouring, may possibly, I think, be an extreme variety of that species.

    Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various

  • Nay, Seneca adds niceness6 and satiety: Cogita quamdiu eadem feceris; mori velle, non tantum fortis aut miser, sed etiam fastidiosus potest [Think how long thou hast done the same thing; not only a valiant man or a miserable man, but also a fastidious man is able to wish for death].

    II. Of Death 1909

  • Terrae of course goes with fastidiosus, not with dominus.

    The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace 65 BC-8 BC Horace 1847

  • Cogita quamdiu eadem feceris; cibus, somnus, ludus per hunc circulum curritur; mori velle non tantum fortis, aut miser, aut prudens, sed etiam fastidiosus potest.

    The Advancement of Learning Francis Bacon 1593

  • cum famulis dominusque terrae fastidiosus: sed Timor et Minae scandunt eodem quo dominus, neque

    High and Low, Rich and Poor Horace 1912

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