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Weep and howl no more then, 'tis to small purpose; and as Tully adviseth us in the like case, Non quos amisimus, sed quantum lugere par sit cogitemus: think what we do, not whom we have lost.
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Nonne ridiculum lugere quod colas, vel colere quod lugeas?
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Quis unquam vidit avarum ringi, dum lucrum adest, adulterum dum potitur voto, lugere in perpetrando scelere? voluptate sumus ebrii, proinde non sentimus, &c. 6727.
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On the other hand, he was dead before his son's exile in A.D. 43, for Sen. _ad Helv. _ 2, 5, after enumerating the calamities which had befallen his mother -- among them his father's death -- concludes with the words 'raptum me audisti: hoc adhuc defuerat tibi, lugere vivos.'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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Germans shared with other half-barbarous races, he glosses over the other quality common to savages, want of feeling, with the sounding and grandiose commonplace, expressed in a phrase of characteristic force and brevity, _feminis lugere honestum est, viris meminisse_.
Latin Literature 1902
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What the great master of historical composition has said of the ancient Germans may be applied here also: "Feminis lugere honestum est, viris meminisse."
The Delight Makers Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier 1877
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Sometimes, in his attempt at consolation, he adduces images which, like the Delphian knife, are double-handled, and cut both ways: -- hinc indignatur se mortalem esse creatum nec videt in vera nullum fore morte alium se qui possit vivus sibi se lugere peremptum stansque iacentem se lacerari urive dolere.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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Sometimes, in his attempt at consolation, he adduces images which, like the Delphian knife, are double-handled, and cut both ways: -- hinc indignatur se mortalem esse creatum nec videt in vera nullum fore morte alium se qui possit vivus sibi se lugere peremptum stansque iacentem se lacerari urive dolere.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series John Addington Symonds 1866
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Neque solùm homines, sed ipsa tecta, et parietes urbis videbantur acerbum illius, qui omnibus charissimus erat, interitum lugere.
The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 3 William Hickling Prescott 1827
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Tunc incepit homo DEI Interpres lugere reputans se perditum: Socius etiam meus contestari, quod citius amputarent ei caput quam quod diuideretur à me.
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