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Note 157: "Stat sua cuiquedies; breve et inreparabile tempus/omnibus est vitae; sed famam extendere factis,/Hoc virtutis opus."
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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Stat sua cuique dies; breve et irreparabile tempus omnibus est vitae; sed famam extendere facti, hoc virtutis opus.
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Note 112: Must., p. 37, chap. 104: "et extendere etiam et curvare similiter pedes singulasque partes corporis ita formare ut quae concava esse debent premantur, quae gracilia vero sunt constringantur, quae extantia, adducantur … caput vero diligenter rotundum facere, patellas etiam in genibus movere, deinde omne corpus suspendere et deponere et universas partes officiis suis restaurare." back
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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All translators have rendered "contus" by "pole," notwithstanding the fact that the word is used in a very different sense in Priapeia, x, 3: "traiectus conto sic extendere pedali," and contrary to the tradition which lay behind the gift of an apple or the acceptance of one.
Satyricon 2007
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Our term extension comes from the late Latin term extensio — itself derived from the clas - sical verb extendere — and it became a philosophical term in the Middle Ages.
SPACE SALOMON BOCHNER 1968
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* Judicioque suo, mota se extendere mente: [5552] 1
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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_Quod alligati ad certam pedum necessitatem non semper propriis uti possint, sed depulsi a rectâ viâ, necessario ad quædam diverticula confugiant; nec mutare quædam modo verba, sed extendere, corripere, convertere, dividere cogantur.
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
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Dacian war, discusses the difficulty of using _barbara et fera nomina_ in the poem: 'sed ... si datur Homero et mollia uocabula et Graeca ad leuitatem uersus contrahere extendere inflectere, cur tibi similis audentia, praesertim non delicata sed necessaria, non detur?'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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BOOK SIXTH l. 242 -- Omitted with the balance of MS.authority. l. 806 -- _virtutem extendere factis_ with Med.; _virtute extendere vires_
The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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Matrona inter primas honesta, Philomela nomine quae multas saepe hereditates officio aetati extorserat, tum anus et floris extincti, filium filiamque ingerebat orbis senibus, et per hanc successionem artem suam perseverabat extendere.
The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter
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