"Teres" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... powerful party, bold, and without measure. Who ever so greedily hunted after security and repose as Alexander and Caesar did after disturbance and difficulties? Teres, the father of Sitalces, was wont to say that "when he had no wars, he fancied there was no difference betwixt him and his groom." Cato the consul, to secure some cities of Spain from revolt, only interdicting the inhabitants from wearing arms, ...
— The Essays of Montaigne, Complete • Michel de Montaigne
... punctuation obscures the text. Carefully compare the following: Tac. and Tor. Spondylos teres, cuminum, etc. Hum., List. and G.-V. S. teres cuminum, i.e. crush the cumin. Sch. S. ...
— Cooking and Dining in Imperial Rome • Apicius
... robe he to-rof of his rigge naked, & of a hep of askes he hitte i{n} e mydde[gh]; 380 He aske[gh] heterly a hayre & hasped hy{m} vmbe, Sewed a sekke er abof, & syked ful colde; er he dased i{n} at duste, w{i}t{h} droppande teres, Wepande ful wonderly alle his wrange dedes. 384 [Sidenote: He issues a decree, that all in the city, men, beasts, women and children, prince, priest, and prelates, should fast for their sins.] e{n}ne sayde he to his seriau{n}tes, ...
— Early English Alliterative Poems - in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century • Various
... omnem fidem superantia Florentinae mulieris & vlrici cuiusdam Neucesseri refert Langius epist. Medicinalium lib. 2. Epist. 38. e cuius ventriculo lignum teres & quatuor cultri execti sunt: eorum & formam & iusta longitudinem ponit. Lycosthenes lib. de prodigijs & ostentis quo modo huiusmodi in corporibus humanis inueniantur & qua ratione ingenerentur, aut eijciantur ...
— A Treatise of Witchcraft • Alexander Roberts
... sayd god Appollo. what may he do more but sew to your grace. Beholde how the teres from his eyen goo. It is satysfaction half for his trespace. Now gloryo{us} goddes shew your petio{us} face To this pore prysoner at my request. All we for youre honour thynke ...
— The Assemble of Goddes • Anonymous |
