If they're on their game, they'll throw down a challenge to the West Coast headl iners. ❋ Unknown (2010)
[3615] Quid nisi pondus iners stolidaeque ferocia memtis, What in Osus and Ephialtes (Neptune's sons in Homer), nine acres long? ❋ Unknown (2007)
God who endowed it with these properties; my chaos includes not the forces you imagine — “nec quidquam nisi pondus iners”; it was a powerless mass; “pondus” here signifies not weight but mass. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Some think fools and dizzards live the merriest lives, as Ajax in Sophocles, Nihil scire vita jucundissima, 'tis the pleasantest life to know nothing; iners malorum remedium ignorantia, ignorance is a downright remedy of evils. ❋ Unknown (2007)
L'Action (1893) was criticized by his Sorbonne exam - iners, partisans of Renan's scientism, for its religiosity. ❋ JOHN RATT (1968)
As he listened with half - closed eyes to that faint pulsing, sometimes almost drowned by the cosmic barrage, he knew how the mar - iners of old must have felt when they caught the first glimpse of the harbour lights from far out at sea. ❋ Clarke, Arthur C. (1951)
I passed at the foot of the venerable Mount Ararat, and was fortunate enough to meet with a favourable moment for traversing the cold regions of Arminia, _nec Armeniis in oris stat glacies iners menses per omnes_; and I crossed the dangerous borders of Turkey and Persia without any event occurring worthy of record. ❋ James Morier (N/A)
Sed ubi in Africam venit, exercitus ei traditur a Sp. Albino pro consule iners, imbellis, neque periculi neque laboris patiens, lingua quam manu promptior, praedator [255] ex sociis et ipse praeda hostium, sine imperio et modestia habitus. ❋ 86 BC-34? BC Sallust (N/A)
How forcibly does this distinguished jurist illustrate the remark of Cicero in his Treatise on Old Age: "Sed videtis, ut senectus non modo languida atque iners non sit, verum etiam sit operosa, et semper agens aliquid et moliens; tale scilicet, quod cujusque studium in superiore vita fuit." ❋ George Sharswood (N/A)
'Quae nunc nomen habent operosi signa Maronis Pondus iners quondam duraque massa fuit. ❋ Max Beerbohm (1914)
Let us emulate his calm, enjoy his enjoyment as he sprawls before us -- pinguis, iners, placidus -- in the pale twilight. ❋ Max Beerbohm (1914)
A. scilicet omnis eum tellus, gens omnis adorat, diligiturque deis, quem sic taciturna uerentur arbuta, cuius iners audito nomine tellus incaluit floremque dedit; cui silua uocato110 densat odore comas, stupefacta regerminat arbos. ❋ Calpurnius (1912)
One phrase dropped by Aper, the apologist of the modern school, is of special interest as coming from the future historian; among the faults of the Ciceronian oratory is mentioned a languor and heaviness in narration -- _tarda et iners structura in morem annalium_. ❋ Unknown (1902)
_Pigrum et iners videtur sudore adquirere quod possis sanguine parare_: has been the motto of all medieval times. ❋ Wilhelm Roscher (1855)
Alea sequa vorax species certissima furti Non contenta bonis, animum quoque perfida mergit; -- Furca, furax -- infamis, iners, furiosa, ruina. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)
Nec arare terram, aut expectare annum, tam facile persuaseris, quam vocare hostes et vulnera mereri; pigrum quinimmo et iners videtur sudore acquirere, quod possis sanguine parare. ❋ William Sleeman (1822)
[Footnote: Pigrum quin immo et iners videtur, sudore acquirere quod possis sanguine parare.] ❋ Adam Ferguson (1769)
FILE -- In this Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2006 file photo m iners dig for diamonds in Marange, Zimbabwe. ❋ Unknown (2010)
----- Juxta hunc fera appellatur catoblepas, modica alioquin, ceterisque membris iners, caput tantum praegrave aegre ferens; alias internecio humani generis, omnibus qui oculos ejus videre, confestim morientibus. ❋ 1452-1519 Leonardo Da Vinci (1485)