Marmora

He took, therefore, measure of that proportion of soil which was now become adequate to all his future purposes, and he lay dead on the ground, a great (though not a living) example of the truth of that observation of Horace: Tu secanda marmora ❋ Unknown (1917)

The rich man looks into the future, and makes contracts which he may never live to see executed (v. 17 -- "Tu secanda marmora Locas sub ipsum funus"); meantime ❋ 65 BC-8 BC Horace (1847)

FuiBse municipium, docent marmora a Capta vhik laureahm. ❋ Emerich Thomas Hohler , Joseph Eckhel, Anton Von Steinbüchel, Aubin Louis Millin De Grandmaison (1792)

Duce me retro nefcendent refonis marmora collibus Et longo procul ordine, ❋ Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Joannes Michael Van Der Ketten (1791)

NeuJpudeat Tacros Mentita vultus frangere marmora: ❋ Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Joannes Michael Van Der Ketten (1791)

Aramque & folio Solis, & aureis Fingent marmora liliis. ❋ Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Joannes Michael Van Der Ketten (1791)

Praeterea vario radiantia marmora ritu Donat, & a bimari venientia faxa Corintho. ❋ Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Joannes Michael Van Der Ketten (1791)

Tuo feveras peAore marmora Puxire venat» marmora rupibus Decifa, quas Getula cslebs Deucalio fuper arva jecit* ❋ Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Joannes Michael Van Der Ketten (1791)

Pullau proceres. i Jam accurrit, qur marmora donet, ❋ Unknown (1785)

T VN t A t, dida marmora, in tabu* las diflTcaa, cx Gr TA«rvHM, vc videtur. ❋ Charles Du Fresne Du Cange (1778)

Auxiliiun praebet; fpumantia marmora Beltae Findimus, aequorel raptim fietimusque Fiond. ❋ Unknown (1770)

Nee locus inveniendus adeft, qui ferre fagacem Quosve queat fapiens mores perferre malignos. i25*Ergo fulmineis reboanda marmora vends. ❋ Unknown (1770)

’ ait haec minax Cybelle religatque iuga manu. ferus ipse sese adhortans rapidum incitat animo, 85 uadit, fremit, refringit uirgulta pede uago. at ubi umida albicantis loca litoris adiit, tenerumque uidit Attin prope marmora pelagei, facit impetum: ille demens fugit in nemora fera: ibi semper omne uitae spatium famula fuit. ❋ Unknown (1912)

Bruttia Sicanium circumspicit ora Pelorum? quid primum mediumue canam, quo fine quiescam? auratasne trabis an Mauros undique postis35 an picturata lucentia marmora uena mirer, an emissas per cuncta cubilia nymphas? huc oculis, huc mente trahor. uenerabile dicam lucorum senium? te, quae uada fluminis infra cernis, an ad siluas quae respicis, aula, tacentis, 40 qua tibi tuta quies offensaque turbine nullo nox silet et pigros inuitant murmura somnos? an quae graminea suscepta crepidine fumant balnea et impositum riuis algentibus ignem? quaque uaporiferis iunctus fornacibus amnis45 ridet anhelantis uicino flumine nymphas? uidi artis ueterumque manus uariisque metalla uiua modis. labor est auri memorare figuras aut ebur aut dignas digitis contingere gemmas; quicquid et argento primum uel in aere minori50 lusit et enormis manus est experta colossos. dum uagor aspectu uisusque per omnia duco, calcabam necopinus opes. nam splendor ab alto defluus et nitidum referentes aera testae monstrauere solum; uarias ubi picta per artis55 gaudet humus superatque nouis asarota figuris: expauere gradus. ❋ Unknown (1912)

nouaeque pergunt interire lunae: tu secanda marmora ❋ Horace (1912)

ergo ubi collecti proceres, qui rebus in artis30 consulerent tantisque darent solacia morbis, obliti subito Phrygiae bellisque relictis ad solitos coepere iocos et iurgia Circi tendere. nequiquam magna confligitur ira, quis melius uibrata puer uertigine molli35 membra rotet, uerrat quis marmora crine supino, quis magis enodis laterum detorqueat artus, quis uoci digitos, oculos quis moribus aptet. hi tragicos meminere modos; his fabula Tereus, his necdum commissa choro cantatur Agaue. ❋ Claudian (1912)

(musiva atque marmora) see the original grant of Pope Adrian I. to ❋ Unknown (1206)

••*•* oculis quatuor. marmora - 40* Pl. oblonga pilJida., ❋ Unknown (1788)

France, tom.v. p. 378,) extruxit etiam Aquisgrani basilicam plurimæ pulchritudinis, ad cujus structuram a Roma et Ravenna columnas et marmora devehi fecit.] [Footnote 31: I cannot refuse to transcribe a long passage of Petrarch ❋ Edward Gibbon (1765)

Pantheon was already a Catholic church.] [Footnote 29: For the spoils of Ravenna (musiva atque marmora) see the original grant of Pope Adrian I. to Charlemagne, (Codex Carolin.epist. lxvii. in Muratori, Script. ❋ Edward Gibbon (1765)