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  • Littera sera quidem, studiis exculte Suilli, huc tua peruenit, sed mihi grata tamen, qua, pia si possit superos lenire rogando gratia, laturum te mihi dicis opem. ut iam nil praestes, animi sum factus amici 5 debitor: et meritum uelle iuuare uoco. impetus iste tuus longum modo duret in aeuum, neue malis pietas sit tua lassa meis. ius aliquod faciunt adfinia uincula nobis

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Some editions read, _invidiam lenire suo privato incommodo, quàm minimo publico populi Romani liceret_.

    The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 Titus Livius

  • _L_ | | 20 potES _H2c_ atque utinam possis, et detur amicius aruum, remque tuam ponas in meliore loco! quod quoniam in dis est, tempta lenire precando numina perpetua quae pietate colis.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • This leads to Ovid's request: atque utinam possis, et detur amicius aruum, remque tuam ponas in meliore loco! quod quoniam in dis est, tempta lenire precando numina perpetua quae pietate colis.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • "Dictas ob hoc lenire tigres, rabidosque leones," would soften piratical Turks.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 Various

  • If we take spell in its more proper signification for a charm (carmen), and take that in a good sense, for what is moving and affecting, which is apt lenire dolorem -- to calm the spirits, or to raise them in admiration or love, as that which is very amiable we call charming, it is applicable to the gospel; for in it the charmer charmeth wisely, though to deaf adders,

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721

  • Sunt verba et voces, quibus hunc lenire dolorem Poilisy et magnam morbi deponere partem.

    The Works of Horace 1780

  • [495] aequaliter distribuerat, et ex coriis utres uti fierent curabat; simul et inopiam frumenti lenire et ignaris omnibus parare, quae mox usui forent; denique sexto die, quum ad flumen ventum est, maxima vis utrium effecta.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • #3d taylor3 442 Distilled Geography: Europes Alcohol Belts lenire @jpenso geography, literature, science, and history ... unlearn it ... then learn professional wrestling moves, and you are in

    Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2010

  • 33, _Fervet avaritia miseroque cupidine pectus; Sunt verba et voces quibus hunc lenire dolorem Possis.

    The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879

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