"Fax" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... from any priestly function. It now regarded them as the special representatives of the despised element of sex in life.[290] The eccentric Tertullian had once declared that woman was janua Diaboli; nearly seven hundred years later, even the gentle and philosophic Anselm wrote: Femina fax est Satanae.[291] ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis
... by Ennius apud Macrob. Sat. vi. 4: "Interea fax Occidit, Oceanumque rubra tractim obruit aethra." See Columna on Enn. ...
— The Iliad of Homer (1873) • Homer
... ut merito locum in republica summo proximum ad supremum usque diem tenuerit." (De Rebus Gestis, fol. 9.) Martyr, noticing the cardinal's death, bestows the following brief but comprehensive panegyric on him. "Periit Gonsalus Mendotiae, domus splendor et lucida fax; periit quem universa colebat Hispania, quem exteri etiam principes venerabantur, quem ordo cardineus collegam sibi esse gloriabatur." Opus ...
— The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella The Catholic, V2 • William H. Prescott |
