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XI 12, 11, tutti, con avvolgente metafora, bisognosi dell'assiduità del buon coltivatore: «nec coluisse semel sufficit, sed semper insistere oportet qui singularem aliquem vel agri vel animi fructum cupit» Fam.
Archive 2008-05-01 Miglior acque 2008
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XI 12, 11, tutti, con avvolgente metafora, bisognosi dell'assiduità del buon coltivatore: «nec coluisse semel sufficit, sed semper insistere oportet qui singularem aliquem vel agri vel animi fructum cupit» Fam.
Francesco Petrarca, Canzoniere Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, ed & comm. Rosanna Bettarini (Turin, 2005) Miglior acque 2008
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Solem immobilibus oculis: feruentibus harenis toto die alternis pedibus insistere.
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Solem immobilibus oculis: feruentibus harenis toto die alternis pedibus insistere.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Non enim ad pedes verba dimensa sunt; ideoque ex loco transferuntur in locum, ut jungantur quo congruunt maximè; sicut in structurâ saxorum rudium etiam ipsa enormitas invenit cui applicari, et in quo possit insistere.
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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Villaincall me Master Wagner, and let thy left eye be diametarily7 fixed upon my right heel, with quasi vestigias nostras insistere.
Scene IV 1909
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Nunc quantum homini licet, in ipsius Christi vestigiis, si fas est dicere, insistere videtur, vir vere Christianus.
A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell Wilfred Thomason Grenfell 1902
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Ecquando desinemus et habentes et praebentes molestiis insistere?
A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885
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* Si quis vitiorum omnium inimicus rectum iter vitae coepit insistere, primum propter morum differentiam odium habet.
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[39] Si quis vitiorum omnium inimicus rectum iter vitae coepit insistere, primum propter morum differentiam odium habet.
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