optat

_Qui non dat quod amat, non accipit ille quod optat_, was an inscription on an old chequer-board of the times of Henry II.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

"Animus quod perdidit, optat, Atque in præterita se totus imagine versat."

Classic French Course in English William Cleaver Wilkinson

Non facit quod optat ipse dominis pressus iniquis.

The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

_Mittit et optat amans quo mittitur ire salutem, Haemonis Haemonio

The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879

Nemo optat sibi hanc libertatem, volendi quae velit, sed potius volendi optima. —

A Lecture on the Study of History John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton 1868

-- Nemo optat sibi hanc libertatem, volendi quae velit, sed potius volendi optima.

Lectures on Modern history John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton 1868

Could I reduce this epistolary corvée within the limits of my friends and affairs, and give the time redeemed from it to reading and reflection, to history, ethics, mathematics, my life would be as happy as the infirmities of age would admit, and I should look on its consummation with the composure of one "qui summum nec me tuit diem nec optat."

Letters 1760

In many local calendars, today is the memorial for the martyrdom of Boethius. bella bis quinis operatus annis ultor Atrides Phrygiae ruinis fratris amissos thalamos piauit; ille dum Graiae dare uela classi optat et uentos redimit cruore, exuit patrem miserumque tristis foederat natae iugulum sacerdos. fleuit amissos Ithacus sodales, quos ferus uasto recubans in antro mersit immani Polyphemus aluo; sed tamen caeco furibundus ore gaudium maestis lacrimis rependit.

Siris 2008

[4894] — — — atque aliquis de diis non tristibus optat

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Ad - optat, adsciscit, sibi tdiungit e vj propria v. optare, qua eli - gere significat.

P. Ovidii Nasonis Fastorum libri VI. Ovid, Publius Ovidius Naso, Gottlieb Erdmann Gierig 1812