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  • "Omne oleo tranquillari; et ob id urinantes ore spargere, quoniam mitiget naturam asperam lucemque deportet." "gerere" says the

    NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

  • Malle se bellum cum magno principe gerere, quam cum uno ex fratrum mendicantium ordine.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Novas leges suas ad Angelum Gabrielem referebat, pro monitore mentiebatur omnia se gerere.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • From the Latin gerundum, rooted in gerere, “to bear, to carry,” because the gerund, though a noun, seems to bear the action of a verb.

    The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

  • From the Latin gerundum, rooted in gerere, “to bear, to carry,” because the gerund, though a noun, seems to bear the action of a verb.

    The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

  • Itaque non uti antea cum praedatoria manu, sed magno exercitu comparato bellum gerere coepit et aperte totius Numidiae imperium petere.

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

  • Ita perculsa nobilitate post multas tempestates novo homini consulatus mandatur, et postea populus a tribuno plebis Manlio Mancino rogatus, quem vellet cum Jugurtha bellum gerere, frequens Marium jussit.

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

  • Quae negotia multo magis quam proelium male pugnatum ab suis, regem terrebant; quippe cui spes omnis in fuga sita erat, sequi cogebatur, et qui sua loca [305] defendere nequiverat, in alienis bellum gerere.

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

  • 'Scio ego, Quirites, plerosque non iisdem artibus imperium a vobis petere et, postquam adepti sunt, gerere; primo industrios, supplices, modicos esse, dein per ignaviam et superbiam aetatem agere.

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

  • Quibus rebus permota civitas atque immutata urbis facies erat; ex summa laetitia atque lascivia, quae diuturna quies pepererat, repente omnes tristitia invasit; festinare, trepidare, neque loco neque homini cuiquam satis credere, neque bellum gerere, neque pacem habere, suo quisque metu pericula metiri.

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

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