Hoc visum est utile; nimis enim imminebat propter propinquitatem Aegina Piraeo.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Sin autem dictum non omne praestandum est, quod dictum non est, id praestandum putas?
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

] Note 91 ( return ) [ Domini tui milites (says the proud Nicephorus) equitandi ignari pedestris pugnae sunt inscii: scutorum magnitudo, loricarum gravitudo, ensium longitudo galearumque pondus neutra parte pugnare cossinit; ac subridens, impedit, inquit, et eos gastrimargia, hoc est ventris ingluvies, &c. Liutprand in Legat.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

And now the fields, when suns serenely greet, A rich and mellow, wanton joy afford: The russet pease vines, and the burnished wheat And whiter barley,—hating to be stored, Guarding with jealous spears their precious hoard,— The tapering oat-stalk, dangling beads of gold: In brilliant sea of beauty all outpoured, With dazzling depth of splendor all untold, Where fleets of zephyrs skip in fold that follows fold Like to a dream I had but yesternight, Of pure, transporting, childlike playfulness, The presence of a fair-haired, blue-eyed, bright, Thoughtless and laughing.—Words can not express In poet phrase the fulness that did bless Entrancingly my vision.
— from Vacation Verse by William M. (William Mackay) MacKeracher

It is well known that Wu Ting Fang, two and a half years before the revolution, had revised and modernized the Chinese code, but it was not even in part put in practise before the revolution.
— from China Revolutionized by John Stuart Thomson

He introduced a new era into Peruvian politics—he was the first native Peruvian with no Spanish blood in his veins who assumed supreme power.
— from Peru in the Guano Age Being a Short Account of a Recent Visit to the Guano Deposits, with Some Reflections on the Money They Have Produced and the Uses to Which It Has Been Applied by A. J. (Alexander James) Duffield

' [Transcriber's note: The above Greek phrases were transliterated as follows: nuni —nu, upsilon, nu, iota; menei —mu, epsilon, nu, epsilon, iota; pistis —pi, iota, sigma, tau, iota, final sigma; elpis —epsilon, lambda, pi, iota, final sigma; agape —alpha (soft breathing mark), gamma, alpha, pi, eta; ta —tau, alpha; tria —tau, rho, iota, alpha; tauta —tau, alpha, upsilon, tau, alpha; meizpon —mu, epsilon, iota, zeta, omega, nu; de —delta, epsilon; touton —tau, omicron, upsilon, tau, omega, nu; he —(rough breathing mark) epsilon; agape —alpha (soft breathing mark), gamma, alpha, pi, { 54} LETTERS To A. V. R. Brislington Hill, Bristol: September 24, 1890.
— from Letters to His Friends by Forbes Robinson

These animals are not numerous, except in particular places, and it even appears that they are confined to the rivers of Africa.
— from Buffon's Natural History. Volume 08 (of 10) Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c by Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de

Most of the adsmithing is now employed in persuading people that such things are useful, beautiful, and pure.
— from Literature and Life (Complete) by William Dean Howells