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  • [from se soucier, from the Latin sollicitare (to worry)]

    souci - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • Manlius in Etruria plebem sollicitare, egestate simul ac dolore injuriae novarum rerum cupidam, quod Sullae dominatione agros bonaque omnia amiserat, praeterea latrones cujusque generis, quorum in ea regione magna copia erat, nonnullos ex Sullanis colonis, quibus libido atque luxuria ex magnis rapinis nihil reliqui fecerant.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • Per eas se Catilina credebat posse servitia urbana sollicitare, urbem incendere, viros earum vel adjungere sibi vel interficere.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • Turpe proco ancillam sollicitare Est autem virtutis ancilia laus.

    Bacon is Shake-Speare Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence 1875

  • Albæ Dux copias eum undique contrahere, apparatum facere, tempus ducere, quoscumque principes quibuscumque conditionibus sollicitare, ut ingruenti rerum omnium ruinæ occurreret, ad hoc extremum remedium invitus coactusque descendit.

    The Reign of Mary Tudor James Anthony Froude 1856

  • from se soucier, from the Latin sollicitare to worry

    souci - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • Here again is a demonstration of the absurdity of supposing that the world was made for the use of men (v. 156): -- dicere porro hominum causa voluisse parare præclaram mundi naturam proptereaque adlaudabile opus divom laudare decere æternumque putare atque inmortale futurum nec fas esse, deum quod sit ratione vetusta gentibus humanis fundatum perpetuo ævo, sollicitare suis ulla vi ex sedibus umquam nec verbis vexare et ab imo evertere summa, cetera de genere hoc adfingere et addere, Memmi desiperest.

    Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series John Addington Symonds 1866

  • Here again is a demonstration of the absurdity of supposing that the world was made for the use of men (v. 156): -- dicere porro hominum causa voluisse parare præclaram mundi naturam proptereaque adlaudabile opus divom laudare decere æternumque putare atque inmortale futurum nec fas esse, deum quod sit ratione vetusta gentibus humanis fundatum perpetuo ævo, sollicitare suis ulla vi ex sedibus umquam nec verbis vexare et ab imo evertere summa, cetera de genere hoc adfingere et addere, Memmi desiperest.

    Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866

  • quae poterant ipsum sollicitare Iouem. excidit attonito pinguis Galatea poetae,

    To Valerius Flaccus Martial 1912

  • liminis adstricti sollicitare fidem50 delabique toro tunica uelata soluta

    Tragedy and Love Elegy Ovid 1912

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