"Locus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... well skilled in the sea for an inland prince, and well improved since the first act, when he sent his son to discover it. The image had not been amiss from another man, at another time: Sed nunc non erat his locus: he destroyed the concernment which the audience might otherwise have had for him; for they could not think the danger near, when he had the ...
— The Works of John Dryden, Vol. 6 (of 18) - Limberham; Oedipus; Troilus and Cressida; The Spanish Friar • John Dryden
... Study, 1. is a place where a Student, 2. apart from Men, sitteth alone, addicted to his Studies, Museum, 1. est locus ubi Studiosus, 2. secretus ab Hominibus, sedet solus deditus Studiis, whilst he readeth Books, 3. which being within his reach he layeth open upon a Desk, 4. dum lectitat Libros, 3. quos penes se & exponit super Pluteum, 4. and ...
— The Orbis Pictus • John Amos Comenius
... Dean, smiling. "It don't sound nice, but I know a little about cooking, and when them 'Stralian grubs are nicely cooked over the fire they are not to be sneezed at. There's another thing too that's very nice eating, baked or roasted, and that's a locus', and I shouldn't wonder if you could find them out here, for they come in clouds up in the north and eat ...
— Dead Man's Land - Being the Voyage to Zimbambangwe of certain and uncertain • George Manville Fenn
... est locus Marini Falethri, decapitati pro criminibus." Even more impressive is the significant omission of the minutes of the trial from the pages of the State Register. "The fourth volume of the Misti Consiglio X. contains its decrees in the year ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 4 • Lord Byron
... numero. Quare diuersum etiam uel genere uel specie uel numero dicitur. Sed numero differentiam accidentium uarietas facit. Nam tres homines neque genere neque specie sed suis accidentibus distant; nam uel si animo cuncta ab his accidentia separemus, tamen locus cunctis diuersus est quem unum fingere nullo modo possumus; duo enim corpora unum locum non obtinebunt, qui est accidens. Atque ideo sunt numero plures, quoniam ...
— The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy • Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius |
