"Aurum" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... medio superest via gurgite; nam qui Nec reliquis nimium vult desipuisse videri, Nec sapuisse nimis, sapientem dixeris vnum: Hinc te merserit vnda, illine combusserit ignis. Nec tu delicias nimis aspernare fluentes, Nec sero dominam venientem in vota, nec aurum, Si sapis, oblatum: (Curijs ea, Fabricijsque Grande sui decus ij, nostri sed dedecus aeui;) Nec sectare nimis: res vtraque crimine plena. Hoc bene qui callet, (si quis tamen hoc bene callet,) Scribe vel invito sapientem hunc Socrate solum. Vis facit ...
— The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 • Edmund Spenser
... Mirrham, Thus Melchior Balthazar Aurum, Haec quicum secum portat tria nomina regum, Soleitur a morbo, ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 57, November 30, 1850 • Various
... sleeps; there is also another favourable proverb, yhavf itttatai, The owl flies an omen of success. But against wise men are pointed these ill-aboding proverbs, 'Ev tetpadi. yewnoevtas, Born under a bad planet; equum habet seianum, He cannot ride the fore-horse; aurum tholosanum, Ill-gotten goods will never prosper; and more to the same purpose. But I forbear from any farther proverbializing, lest I should be thought to have rifled my Erasmus's adages. To return, therefore, ...
— In Praise of Folly - Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts • Desiderius Erasmus |
