"Optime" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... mariage. If for thy owne sake, this sorowe bee, Est seipsum amantis non amici, it is then of a self loue, to thy self, not for her cause: for I muste aunswere as Lelius did to Affricanus, Cum ea optime esseactu[m] quis neget, quid est quod no[n] assecuta est immortalitatem. Who can deny saieth he, but that with her it can not bee better? What is it that she hath not attained. Immortalite. She was vertuous, ...
— A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike • Richard Rainolde
... Ecclesiae Dei filiis, quod ego Joannes, Comes Auci, pro stipendio militum et servientium, quos tenui per guerram Regis, invadiavi maximam partem et optimam Thesauri Ecclesiae S. Michaelis de Ulterior-Portu, duos videlicet Textus praetiosos, et duo Thuribula praetiosa, unum calicem argenteum, et optime deauratum; cappas caras viginti quatuor: casulam peratam et bonam: Praeterea, tot et tantis gravaminibus praefatam Ecclesiam tam saepe gravavi, quam vices gravaminum numerare non possem: quare pro multis pauca, ...
— Architectural Antiquities of Normandy • John Sell Cotman
... Cic. "pro Arch." 20, "Themistoclem illum dixisse aiunt cum ex eo quaereretur, 'quod acroama aut cujus vocem libentissime audiret': 'ejus, a quo sua virtus optime praedicaretur.'" ...
— Hiero • Xenophon
... Regis per 21 Annos continuos Capitalis Justitiarii Gulielmo Regi Annoequr Reginae Consiliarii perpetui: Libertatis ac Legum Anglicarum Assertoris, Vindicis, Custodis, Vigilis Acris & intrepidi, Rolandus Frater Uncius & Hoeres Optime de se Merito posuit, Die Martis Vto. 1709. Sublatus est ex Oculis nostris ...
— Tour through the Eastern Counties of England, 1722 • Daniel Defoe
... he took me into a recess, or closet, where my eye was greeted with one of the most goodly book-sights imaginable. There they all stood—those Delphin Classics—in fair array and comeliest condition. I took down the Statius, and on returning it, exclaimed "Exemplar pulcherrimum et optime conservatum." "Pretiosissimumque," rejoined my cicerone. "And the Prudentius—good M. Hartenschneider—do you possess it?" "Etiam"—replied he. "And the Catullus, Tibullus, and Propertius?" They were there also: but one of the volumes, containing the Tibullus, was ...
— A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three • Thomas Frognall Dibdin |
