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  • [6680] Latet plerumque sub tristi amictu lascivia, et deformis horror vili veste tegitur; ofttimes under a mourning weed lies lust itself, and horrible vices under a poor coat.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • = An image used elsewhere by Ovid as a metaphor of his unhappiness: see _Tr_ I iii 13 'hanc animo nubem dolor ipse remouit', _Tr_ V v 22 'pars uitae tristi cetera nube uacet', and

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Truculentis oculis, commoda statura, tristi fronte.

    The Dramatic Values in Plautus Wilton Wallace Blanck�� 1916

  • Troiae renascens alite lugubri fortuna tristi clade iterabitur

    The Path of the Just Horace 1912

  • Geryonen Tityonque tristi conpescit unda, scilicet omnibus quicumque terrae munere uescimur10

    Eheu fugaces Horace 1912

  • Nell 'ora che comincia, i tristi lai la rondinella presso la mattina,

    The Bride of Dreams Frederik van Eeden 1896

  • [449] He addressed to him an Ode in Latin, entitled Ad Thomam Laurence, medicum doctissimum, quum filium peregre agentem desiderio nimis tristi prosequeretur.

    Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • Lucretius, the apostle of the epicurean philosophy in Rome, develops the theme that the reason why people commit all kinds of iniquities and crimes during their lives is due to the fear of death (De Rerum Natura 3. 59-73): denique avarities et honorum caeca cupido, quae miseros homines cogunt transcendere fines iuris et inter dum socios scelerum atque ministros noctes atque dies niti praestante labore ad summas emergere opes, haec vulnera vitae non minimam partem mortis formidine aluntur. turpis enim ferme contemptus et acris egestas semota ab dulci vita stabilique videtur et quasi iam leti portas cunctarier ante; unde homines dum se falso terrore coacti effugisse volunt longe longeque remosse, sanguine civili rem conflant divitiasque conduplicant avidi, caedem caede accumulantes, crudeles gaudent in tristi funere fratris et consanguineum mensas odere timentque.

    Fear Makes The World Go Round 2006

  • Deum, me ipsutn repreheaderent, et vulcu ipso tristi falsitateoa oIk

    Tractatus theologicus de charitate, in quo expenditur systema J.V. Bolgenj de amore Dei. Accedit ... Joseph Chantre Herrera, Giovanni Vincenzo Bolgeni 1792

  • Elephant Gun si trova sull’EP Lon Gisland, seguito dell’album d’esordio Gulag Orkestar, acclamato dalla critica, “dal suono come di un’intera orchestra balcanica che suona pezzi moderni come tristi ballate”.

    No Fat Clips!!! : BEIRUT – Elephant Gun 2007

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