profuit

• “I conclude, therefore, of this and all other medicines, as Thucydides of the plague at Athens, no remedy could be prescribed for it, Nam quod uni profuit, hoc aliis erat exitio: there is no Catholic medicine to be had: that which helps one, is pernicious to another.”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “Multis ad salutem animae profuit corporis aegritudo,”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “Nil Publius Scipio profuit, nil ei Laelius, nil Furius,”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “Hieme pluviosa, regnante dolores renovantur; tametsi tempore sereno equitatio profuit.”

  Travels through France and Italy

• “At multum mihi profuit, inquit peregrinus, carpum amento extrahens, e quo pependit acinaces: Loculo manum inseruit; et magna cum urbanitate, pilei parte anteriore tacta manu sinistra, ut extendit dextram, militi florinum dedit et processit.”

  The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

• “Genus dicatum Jano Huigenio Linschotenio, geographo, navarcho, itineratori seculi XVI., qui historiae naturalis, imprimis vero geographiae et rei nauticae progressui eximie profuit.”

  Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia

• “Cum itaque dicatur Salvator pro totius mundi redemptione crucifixus, propter veram humanæ naturæ susceptionem, potest tamen dici pro his tantum crucifixus quibus mors ipsius profuit.”

  The Death of Death in the Death of Christ

• “= Being _pudica_, she deserved to survive -- Professor E. Fantham points out to me here Ovid's use of what could be called the _quid profuit_ topic.”

  The Last Poems of Ovid

• “Ne verere, multos iste morbus homines macerat, quibus insputari saluti fuit atque is profuit.”

  Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives

• “Scipio profuit, nihil illei Laelius, nil Furius, tres per id tempus qui agitabant facile nobilissumei: eorum ille opera ne domum quidem habuit conducticiam, 10 saltem ut esset quo referret obitum domini seruolus.”

  Terence corrupted by his Patrons

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