umbratilis

The beautiful word umbratilis perhaps comes nearest to it; and, with that precise sense, might describe the spirit in which he prepared himself for the sacerdotal function hereditary in his family -- the sort of mystic enjoyment he had in the abstinence, the strenuous self-control and ascêsis, which such preparation involved.

Marius the Epicurean — Volume 1 Walter Pater 1866

I lingered in the Forum Boarium and watched the people buying their flowers and their fruit and all the rest of it, and wondered what it would be like not to have any interest in politics but simply to live, as the poet has it, vita umbratilis, “a life in the shade.”

Imperium Robert Harris 2006

I lingered in the Forum Boarium and watched the people buying their flowers and their fruit and all the rest of it, and wondered what it would be like not to have any interest in politics but simply to live, as the poet has it, vita umbratilis, “a life in the shade.”

Imperium Robert Harris 2006

“In reading Macaulay’s life I had a haunting feeling that his had been a life of public utility and mine a vita umbratilis, a life in the shade.

Cardinal Manning: Part X 1918

Whatever his original intentions may have been, he actually chose the secluded life of study, the _vita umbratilis_, as the Romans called it, remote from the dust and heat of the great world.

Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

For me, a weakling and a dreamer, there is solace in the _vita umbratilis_; to you, it is naught.

Veranilda George Gissing 1880

-- M.] [Footnote 40: Et dedignatus hominem superare certamine despicabilem, auctoritatis et celsi fiducia corporis ipsis hostibus jussit, suum vincire rectorem: atque ita turmarum, antesignanus umbratilis comprensus suorum manibus.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 Edward Gibbon 1765

M.] 40 Et dedignatus hominem superare certamine despicabilem, auctoritatis et celsi fiducia corporis ipsis hostibus jussit, suum vincire rectorem: atque ita turmarum, antesignanus umbratilis comprensus suorum manibus.

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