lacerare

And yet one can barely suppress a sigh at all this luxury of levity, when he remembers that dreadful "_Ubi saeva indignatio ulterius cor lacerare nequit_," and reflects upon the hope deferred which vented itself in that stinging couplet, --

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

Cic _Brutus_ 156 '_inuidia_, quae solet _lacerare_ plerosque'.

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

The primary meaning of _lacerare_ behind this usage is _mordere_;

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

'Ubi saeva indignatio cor ulterius lacerare nequit' (Where fierce indignation can no longer tear his heart).

A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher

But hardly is one surmounted than another overtops them like a wave, nor have the stern victims of indignation the smallest hope of deliverance from their suffering, until they lie, as Swift has now lain for so many years, where cruel rage can tear the heart no more -- "Ubi saeva indignatio ulterius cor lacerare nequit."

Essays in Rebellion Henry W. Nevinson 1900

He had directed that his tombstone should bear the inscription, _Ubi saeva indignatio cor ulterius lacerare nequit_.

Brief History of English and American Literature 1886

He had directed that his tombstone should bear the inscription, _Ubi saeva indignatio cor ulterius lacerare nequit_.

From Chaucer to Tennyson 1886

The heart will by and by be still -- "ubi saeva indignatio ulterius cor lacerare nequit"; the eye will cease to entreat; the ear will be deaf; the brain will have ceased from all wants as well as from all work.

The Lifted Veil George Eliot 1849

* Oderit rixas et jurgia, praesertimque inter eruditos, ac turpe esse dicebat, viros indubitate doctos canina rabie famam vicissim suam rodere ac lacerare scriptis trucibus, tanquam vilissimos de plebe cerdones in angiportis sese luto ac stercore conspurcantes.

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I. 1634-1716 1823

_lacerare_ is found in this literal sense at Cic _De or_ II 240

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid