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  • Plerique hoc morbo medicina nihil profecisse visi sunt, et sibi demissi invaluerunt.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Quae non solum edentibus sed et genitale tangentibus tantum valet, ut coire summe desiderent; quoties fere velint, possint; alios duodecies profecisse, alios ad 60 vices pervenisse refert.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Ille se profecisse sciat, cui Cicero valde placebit.

    The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 01: Julius Caesar Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

  • Ille se profecisse sciat, cui Cicero valde placebit.

    De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

  • An appreciation of Milton is the last reward of consummated scholarship; and we may apply to him what Quintilian has said of Cicero, "Ille se profecisse sciat, cui Cicero valde placebit."

    Milton Mark Pattison 1848

  • To the last of the above-mentioned plants, Baptista Porta ascribes the most wonderful powers, his words being: Planta quæ non solum edentibus, sed et genitale languentibus tantum valet, ut coire summe desiderant, quoties fere velint, possint; alios _duodecies_ profecisse, alios ad

    Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction John Davenport 1833

  • In obedience to the canon, — “Principia non esse multiplicanda præter summam necessitatem cui suffragamur non ideo quia causalem in mundo unitatem vel ratione vel experientiâ perspiciamus, sed illam ipsam indagamus impulsu intellectûs, qui tantundem sibi in explicatione phænomenorum profecisse videtur quantum ab codem principio ad plurima rationata descendere ipsi concessum est.”

    Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

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