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News at Eleven: Robert Fagles's ear for linguistic currency is evident in his working of one of many well-known lines from the fourth book, improbe Amor, quid non mortalia pectora cogis: Love, you tyrant!

News at Eleven: [Robert] Fagles's ear for linguistic currency Rus Bowden 2007

[5356] Urimur, et coecum, pectora vulnus habent, and can hardly be discerned at first.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Molliret Thracum pectora. — — — He now lies asleep,

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Optimum est amicum fidelem nancisci in quem secreta nostra infundamus; nihil aeque oblectat animum, quam ubi sint praeparata pectora, in quae tuto secreta descendant, quorum conscientia aeque ac tua: quorum sermo solitudinem leniat, sententia consilium expediat, hilaritas tristitiam dissipet, conspectusque ipse delectet.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Viderunt oculi, rapuerunt pectora flammae; Ammon fell sick for

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Summo mane ululatum oriuntur, pectora percutientes,

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

[4690] Improbe amor quid non mortalia pectora cogis?

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Nec saltent modo sed duo charissima pectora indissolubili mutuae benevolentiae nodo corpulent, ut nihil unquam eos incedere possit irae vel taedii.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

That impression of her beauty is still fixed in his mind, — [5341] haerent infixi pectora vultus; as he that is bitten with a mad dog thinks all he sees dogs — dogs in his meat, dogs in his dish, dogs in his drink: his mistress is in his eyes, ears, heart, in all his senses.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Le Bretailleur, once said to me on such an occasion, and an opinion also of your peculiar merit, could have extorted such concessions; for he and all his family are, and have been, time out of mind, Mavortia pectora, as Buchanan saith,

Waverley 2004