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Movit agros; curis acuens mortalia corda, Nec torpere gravi passus sua
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Quippe diviniori ejus naturse ingenitus vigor eum non permittit penitus torpere nihil agendo, nec poteft aliud agere quam (prout materia fiippeditatur) btelligere, velleac nolle, 8c. motus quofdam corporis, ad obtinenda qux vellet, determinare.
De legibus naturae, disquisitio philosophica, in qua earum forma, summa capita, ordo ... 1672
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Vergil (70 B.C. 19 B.C.) PATER ipse colendi haud facilem esse uiam uoluit, primusque per artem mouit agros curis acuens mortalia corda, nec torpere graui passus sua regna ueterno. ante Iouem nulli subigebant arua coloni; 5 ne signare quidem aut partiri limite campum fas erat: in medium quaerebant, ipsaque tellus omnia liberius nullo poscente ferebat. ille malum uirus serpentibus addidit atris, praedarique lupos iussit pontumque moueri, 10 mellaque decussit foliis ignemque remouit, et passim riuis currentia uina repressit, ut uarias usus meditando extunderet artis paulatim, et sulcis frumenti quaereret herbam, ut silicis uenis abstrusum excuderet ignem.
'In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread' Vergil 1912
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torpere musas non sinis, pariterque fucas quaeque gustu ignaua sunt
To Tetradius: A Remonstrance Ausonius 1912
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