Utinam

-- "Utinam," says Grotius in this letter, "D. Carleton mihi esset plus æquior; cui mitigando propinqui mei operam dant.

The Life of Hugo Grotius With Brief Minutes of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of the Netherlands Charles Butler 1791

Langshaw, although larger than the other mansions assembled at the head of the supposed Glendearg, has nothing about it more remarkable than the inscription of the present proprietor over his shooting lodge — Utinam hane eliam viris impleam amicis — a modest wish, which I know no one more capable of attaining upon an extended scale, than the gentleman who has expressed it upon a limited one.

The Monastery 2008

Utinam dii immortales fecissent (pace tua, Patria, dixerim).

John Adams diary, June 1753 - April 1754, September 1758 - January 1759 1966

Utinam non tam fratri pietatem, quam patriæ præstare voluisset.

A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Caius Cornelius Tacitus

Utinam me divi adaxint ad suspendium 50 potius quidem quam hoc pacto apud te servium.

Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

Utinam mea mihi modo auferam, quae adtuli, salva: me haud paenitet, tua ne expetam.

Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

In contrasting this wise and dignified conduct with the hatred which most Corsicans still cherished against Genoa, Bonaparte's greatness of soul becomes apparent and inspires the wish: _Utinam semper sic fuisses!

The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 1 of 2) John Holland Rose 1898

Dixisti centies, quum fessus laboribus et molestiis oppressus caput familiariter in sinum meum deponeres: Utinam, utinam moriar in hoc sinu!

Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1894

[825] Boswell was right, and Oglethorpe wrong; the exclamation in Suetonius is, 'Utinam populus Romanus unam cervicem haberet.'

Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

And on p. 115 he writes: "Utinam contigisset absolvere ante errorem filii; neque enim ille errasset, nec errandi causam aliquam habuisset: nec, etiamsi errasset, periisset."

Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study 1886