lubricus

-- Ed. [146] Scimus quam lubricus sit lapsus, dum aliunde nobis flabella suscitat Satan: quia videmur culpa exempti, si ejus partem sustinet qui nos ad flagitium inducit.

Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

* Scimus quam lubricus sit lapsus, dum aliunde nobis flabella suscitat Satan: quia videmur culpa exempti, si ejus partem sustinet qui nos ad flagitium inducit: [801] 1

Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

Again, he tells us (Odes, I. 19) into what a ferment his whole being has been thrown, long after he had thought himself safe from such emotions, by the marble-like sheen of Glycera's beauty -- her _grata protervitas, et voltus nimium lubricus adspici_ --

Horace Theodore Martin 1862

In silence_, he was merely unfolding to its full Homer's [Greek: kuma k_ophon] -- "dumb wave"; just as the best of all comments on Horace's expression, "Vultus nimium lubricus aspici,"'Odes', I., xix., 8, is given us in Tennyson's picture of the Oread in Lucretius: --

The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson Alfred Tennyson Tennyson 1850

And, in this way, he himself had a particular happiness; using all the tropes, and particular metaphors, with that grace which is observable in his Odes, where the beauty of expression is often greater than that of thought; as, in that one example, amongst an infinite number of others, "_Et vultus nimium lubricus aspici. _"

The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 04 John Dryden 1665

[3744] somnos dedit umbra salubres, potum quoque lubricus amnis, the tree gave wholesome shade to sleep under, and the clear rivers drink.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Barbari perfringere ftationes, fequc inferre munitoribus nifi, laceffunt, circumgredi - untur, occurfant: mifcetur operantium bellanti - umque clamor: & cunfta pariter Romanis ad - verfa; locus uligine proflinda, idem ad gradum inftabilis, procedentibus lubricus; corpora gravia loricis, neque librare pila inter undas poterant.

C. Cornelii Taciti opera omnia Cornelius Tacitus , Henry Homer , Melchior Freinsheim 1790

***** balteus en gemmis, en illita porticus auro certatim radiant; nec non, ubi finis arenae proxima marmoreo praebet spectacula muro, sternitur adiunctis ebur admirabile truncis et coit in rotulum, tereti qui lubricus axe impositos subita vertigine falleret ungues excuteretque feras. auro quoque torta refulgent retia, quae totis in arenam dentibus extant, dentibus aequatis: et erat (mihi crede, Lycota, si qua fides) nostro dens longior omnis aratro.

Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

a lower tone, so that the eye shall not fasten upon any one particular tint, the whole being of the character of the "_nimium lubricus aspici_."

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. Various

lubricus aut serpens aut auis ulla rapax. tum uentos claudit pendentibus Aeolus antris,

The Phoenix 1912