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ferendo vincitur malum quod
5 M. Fortiter ferendo vincitur malum quod evitari non potest —By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

fiet Vejos migrate Quirites
618 Roma domus fiet: Vejos migrate, Quirites, Si non et Vejos occupat ista domus.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Frontinus vir magnus quantum
He was praetor urbanus 70 A.D. , and in 75 succeeded Cerealis as governor oi Britain, where, as Tacitus tells us, he distinguished himself by the conquest of the Silures: sustinuit molem Iulius Frontinus, vir magnus, quantum licebat, validamque et pugnacem Siturum gentem armis subegit : ‘Julius Frontinus was equal to the burden, a great man as far as greatness was then possible (i.e. under the jealous rule of Domitian), who subdued by his arms the powerful and warlike tribe of the Silures.’
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

fa vergogna ma qui
Sempre a quel ver c'ha faccia di menzogna de' l'uom chiuder le labbra fin ch'el puote, pero` che sanza colpa fa vergogna; ma qui tacer nol posso; e per le note di questa comedia, lettor, ti giuro, s'elle non sien di lunga grazia vote, ch'i' vidi per quell'aere grosso e scuro venir notando una figura in suso, maravigliosa ad ogne cor sicuro, si` come torna colui che va giuso talora a solver l'ancora ch'aggrappa o scoglio o altro che nel mare e` chiuso, che 'n su` si stende, e da pie` si rattrappa.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

foſſe venuto ma q
ꝓ lo ſuo gouuernatore q̃ voleuamo linterprete riſpoſe como eL ſuo ſigniore era cap o deL magiore re et principe foſſe neL mondo et q̃ andaua adiſcourir̃ malucho ma ꝓ la ſua bonna fama Como haueua Jntezo daL re de mazaua era venuto ſolamente ꝓ vizitarlo et pigliare victuuaglia cõ la ſua merchadantia li diſſe q̃ in bonna hora foſſe venuto ma q̃ haueua queſta vzanſa tutte le naui q̃ intrauano neL porto ſuo pagauão tributu
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

fuite vaut mieux qu
[43] Une bonne fuite vaut mieux qu’une mauvaise attente = Discretion is the better part of valour.
— from French Idioms and Proverbs A Companion to Deshumbert's "Dictionary of Difficulties" by de (Vinchelés Payen-Payne) V. Payen-Payne

fiet Veios migrate Quirites
[13] Roma domus fiet: Veios migrate, Quirites; Si non et Veios occupat ista domus.
— from Corinne; Or, Italy. Volume 1 (of 2) by Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine) Staël

From very many quarters
From very many quarters at the present day we are invited to slight our sermon-labour.
— from To My Younger Brethren: Chapters on Pastoral Life and Work by H. C. G. (Handley Carr Glyn) Moule

fait vostre mariage qui
[Pg 421] qui y sont enclos, comme me cheveulz en la bague pour Jamais nen sortir que la mort ne vous permet fair trophee des mes os comme la bague en est remplie en signe que vous aves fayt entiere conqueste de moy, de mon cueur et iusque a vous en lesser les os pour memoir de ṽr̃ẽ victoire et de mon agreable perte et volontiere pour estre mieux employe que ie ne le merite Lesmail demiron est noir qui signifie la fermete de celle que lenvoie les larmes sont sans nombre ausi sont les craintes de vous desplair les pleurs de vostre absence et de desplaisir de ne pouvoir estre en effect exterieur vostre comme je suys sans faintise de cueur et desprit et a bon droit quant mes merites seroint trop plus grands que de la plus perfayte que Jamais feut et telle que je desire estre et mettray poine en condition de contrefair pour dignement estre emploiee soubs vostre domination, reseues la donc mon seul bien en aussi bonne part, comme avecques extreme Joie Jay fait vostre mariage, qui jusques a celuy de nos corps en public ne sortira de mon sein, comme merque de tout ce que Jay ou espere ni desire de felicite en ce monde or craignant mon cueuer de vous ennuyer autant a lire que je me plaire descrir Je finiray apres vous avoir baise les mains daussi grande affection que je prie Dieu (O le seul soubtien de ma vie) vous la donner longue et heureuse et a moy ṽr̃ẽ bonne grace le seul bien que je desire et a quoy je tends Jay dit a ce porteur ce
— from The Mystery of Mary Stuart by Andrew Lang

fe valan mais que
This was the very sentiment that the seigneur expressed to Louis XI at the time when the latter was but a Prince of Dauphiny: “ Lou vassa de fe valan mais que lousignous in buro. ”
— from Castles and Chateaux of Old Burgundy by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

few vndirstand me quhat
Thar suld few vndirstand me quhat thai meyn; 10 The bewte of his ornate eloquens May nocht al tyme be kepit with the sentens.
— from The Æneid of Virgil Translated Into Scottish Verse. Volumes 1 & 2 by Virgil

for vegetation more quickly
They form also soil for vegetation more quickly, and of a more fruitful kind than the granites, and appear, on the whole, intended to unite every character of grandeur and of beauty, and to constitute the loveliest as well as the noblest scenes which the earth ever unfolds to the eyes of men.
— from Modern Painters, Volume 4 (of 5) by John Ruskin


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