plaudite

And before pronouncing the “Vos plaudite!” or, as Easterns more politely say, “I implore that my poor name may be raised aloft on the tongue of praise,” let me invoke the fair field and courteous favour which the Persian poet expected from his readers.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

I fear the piece is at an end with the King of Prussia, and he may say ilicet; I am sure he may personally say plaudite.

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

As we see in Augustus Caesar (who was rather diverse from his uncle than inferior in virtue), how when he died he desired his friends about him to give him a plaudite, as if he were conscious to himself that he had played his part well upon the stage.

The Advancement of Learning 2003

This is as it should be, for the _Misses_ ought to have an equal chance with the _Masters_ -- at least so say we, -- _plaudite_, clap your little hands, and _valete_, good bye!

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 338, November 1, 1828 Various

No more of old Tiresias! nunc, spectatores, Iovis summi causa clare plaudite.

Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

Maxime. te, Philaenium, mihi atque uxoris mortem, hoc Venerium est. pueri, plaudite et mi ob iactum cantharo mulsum date.

Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

_ Cp. the well-known epitaph: -- 'iam mea peracta, mox vestra agetur fabula: valete et plaudite.'

The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura Lucius Apuleius 1914

In his _Penelope's Web_ he writes: "They which smiled at the theatre in Rome might as soon scoff at the rudeness of the scene as give a plaudite at the perfection of the acting."

Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897

Whatever time is assigned to each to live, with that he ought to be content; for neither need the drama be performed entire by the actor in order to give satisfaction, provided he be approved in whatever act he may be; nor need the wise man live till the _plaudite_.

The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome Various 1887

So his friends are bidden 'to clap their hands and shout a loud _plaudite_'.

The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Calvin Thomas 1886