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  • Nam in illis jam quid me foedius fuit, [ubi etiam talibus displicebam], fallendo innumerabilibus mendaciis, et paedagogum et magistros et parentes amore ludendi, studio spectandi nugatoria [et imitandi ludicra inquietudine?]: [5588] 1

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • 'Nunc itaque et versus et cetera ludicra pono: quid verum atque decens, curo et rogo et omnis in hoc sum.'

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • Litteras autem super hac re fecit, item inter haec exercitia quaedam ludicra; et _quiesco_ non esse his simile quae supra posui, nee a _quiete_ dictum, sed ab eo

    The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it Frances Ellen Lord

  • Neque enim leuia aut ludicra praemia petunt, quae consequi atque obtinere non possunt, sed circa ipsam rerum summam uerticemque deficiunt nec in eo miseris contingit effectus quod solum dies noctesque moliuntur; in qua re bonorum uires eminent.

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • Non ulla Musis pagina gratior, Quam quae severis ludicra jungere

    Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • I met lately with the following lines, which arc in fcnfe, and almoft in Vroids, the very fane Hie igitur verfiit, el otter a ludicra pono:

    The Works of Laurence Sterne 1795

  • They included: (1) _ludicra_ (in hendecasyllables); (2) _epithalamia_; (3) _Io_; (4) _ad uxorem_; (5) _epigrammata_.

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • J.O. [1] [learned researchers of this century] — “Nec enim levia aut ludicra petuntur

    A Brief Declaration and Vindication of The Doctrine of the Trinity 1616-1683 1965

  • And I shall only desire these few things of him that intends its perusal: — First, That he would not look on the subject here treated of as the matter of an ordinary controversy in religion, — — “Neque enim hic levia aut ludicra petuntur

    A Brief Declaration and Vindication of The Doctrine of the Trinity 1616-1683 1965

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