"Lene" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Paper, that it is often too much laboured, and sometimes obscured by old Words, Transpositions, and Foreign Idioms. Senecas Objection to the Style of a great Author, Riget ejus oratio, nihil in ea placidum nihil lene, is what many Criticks make to Milton: As I cannot wholly refuse it, so I have already apologized for it in another Paper; to which I may further add, that Milton's Sentiments and Ideas were so wonderfully Sublime, ...
— The Spectator, Volume 2. • Addison and Steele
... DECLENSION /alacer, alacris, alacre /audax, audax /celer, celeris, celere /citerior, citerius /difficilis, difficile /dissimilis, dissimile /facilis, facile gracilis, gracile /humilis, humile /ingens, ingens /interior, interius /lenis, lene /maior, maius /melior, melius /minor, minus /nobilis, nobile /peior, peius ——, /plus /prior, prius /recens, recens /similis, simile /tres, tria ...
— Latin for Beginners • Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge |
