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  • Bene est cui deus obtulit Parca quod satis est manu; bread is enough [3747] to strengthen the heart.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Mythology combines with philosophy to account for the tripartite division of Fate into the Parca:

    FORTUNE, FATE, AND CHANCE VINCENZO CIOFFARI 1968

  • HABITVRA = is a good instance of the future participle used to express what is inevitably destined to happen (with _Parca_ balancing in the pentameter); for the sense, see Tarrant on Sen _Ag_ 43 'daturus coniugi iugulum suae'.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • = Compare XV 36 'dura iubet _gelido_ Parca _sub axe_ mori' and _Her_ VI 105-6 (Hypsipyle to Jason) 'non probat Alcimede mater tua -- consule matrem --/non pater, _a gelido_ cui uenit _axe_ nurus'.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Parca tenax veri, seu nata fidelibus hora dividit in geminos concordia fata duorum,

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

  • It shall be my resolve, lastingly, I hope, to endure until it pleases the implacable Parca: to break the thread.

    Beethoven the Man and the Artist as Revealed in his own Words Kerst, Friedrich 1904

  • Kanin: Parca erau niste voci care sustineau ca asa ceva nu se intampla in Romania?? bai3tzash: woooow, The Mentalist pe Pro TV.

    Blogul iubitorilor de seriale Tv - TvBlog 2009

  • E s 'in me tal voter dee venir manco Spezzi or la Parca a la mia vita i ftami.

    Translations Chiefly from the Italian of Petrarch and Metastasio.. 1795

  • Et quas tu abstuleras ipfe recepit opes. ic mos eft bone Clirifte tuus: tu me eigo valentem Efle jube; fermo nam medicina tuns. yLazarus exanimis jaceo, tufurgito; damai Et vitam repetet, quem fiera Parca tulit.,

    Analysis operum S.S. patrum et scriptorum ecclesiasticorum 1790

  • * seu tamen effectus habitura est gratia, seu me 35 dura iubet gelido Parca sub axe mori, semper inoblita repetam tua munera mente, et mea me tellus audiet esse tuum; audiet et caelo posita est quaecumque sub ullo

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

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