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  • It is characteristick of the founder; but the animus aequus is, alas! not inheritable, nor the subject of devise.

    Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

  • How when all is done, Est Ulubris animus si nos non deficit aequus {83}.

    Defence of Poesie 1992

  • 'Quid? cum est Lucilius ausus primus in hunc operis componere carmina morem, detrahere et pellem, nitidus qua quisque per ora cederet, introrsum turpis, num Laelius et qui duxit ab oppressa meritum Carthagine nomen ingenio offensi aut laeso doluere Metello famosisque Lupo cooperto versibus? atqui primores populi arripuit populumque tributim, scilicet uni aequus virtuti atque eius amicis.'

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • = 'Favourable'; compare _Her_ I 23 'sed bene consuluit casto deus _aequus_ amori'; _Tr_ I ii 6 '_aequa_ Venus Teucris, Pallas

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Est Ulubris; animus si te non deficit aequus [1035]. '

    Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • It is characteristick of the founder; but the animus aequus is, alas! not inheritable, nor the subject of devise.

    Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • It is characteristick of the founder; but the animus aequus is, alas! not inheritable, nor the subject of devise.

    The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. James Boswell 1767

  • Sic de Decii, sic de Valeriani, persecutionibus loquitur, quae an Dodwelli faveant conjectionibus judicet aequus lector.

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

  • Oh, master Mathew, that's a grace peculiar but to a few, quos aequus amavit Jupiter.

    Every Man in His Humor Ben Jonson 1605

  • Decii, sic de Valeriani, persecutionibus loquitur, quae an Dodwelli faveant conjectionibus judicet aequus lector.

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

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