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  • [601] Catullus calls him "tumidus," _i. e._ long-winded,

    Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch

  • Et licet de Patre et Filio aliqua sensissent Platonici, Spiritus tamen tumidus et humani appetitor favoris santificationem mentis divinae mereri non potuit, et ubi ad profunditatem sacramentorum deventum est, omnis eorum caligavit subtilitas, nec potuit infidelitas sanctitudini propinquare: [5456] 1

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • So, too, his vivid and clearly-cut descriptions of nature in single lines and phrases stand out by themselves like golden tesserae in a mosaic, each distinct in a glittering atmosphere -- _qua tumidus rigat arva Nilus; opacam porticus excipiebat Arcton; nec prata canis albicant pruinis_ -- a hundred phrases like these, all exquisitely turned, and all with the same effect of detachment, which makes them akin to sculpture, rather than painting or music.

    Latin Literature 1902

  • Ecclesia se abrumpens, doctoris arrogantia elatus ac tumidus, tanquam præstantior cæteris, novam quandam formam doctrinæ conflavit: Æonas invisibiles commentus perinde ac Valentinus: asserens quoque cum Saturnino

    Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John Isaac Newton 1684

  • T. tumidus quatuor anfractibus reticiilatis, apertura subovali.

    Transactions of the Linnean Society 1791

  • Pharifaeus tumidus, fuperbus, inflatus, talis, qua - les & voS videmus: non humiliato corpore, noa inclinata cervice: fed ere£U facie, & tumenti peftore,

    Opera omnia sanctorum patrum Latinorum 1789

  • qua tumidus rigat arua Nilus, aurum inrepertum et sic melius situm, cum terra celat, spernere fortior50

    The Path of the Just Horace 1912

  • Platonici, Spiritus tamen tumidus et humani appetitor favoris santificationem mentis divinae mereri non potuit, et ubi ad profunditatem sacramentorum deventum est, omnis eorum caligavit subtilitas, nec potuit infidelitas sanctitudini propinquare "-- Cypr. de Spir.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

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