If we compare this passage with Livy, xl, 35, we find that this took place in the year 180 B C. Caligula inaugurated a tax upon prostitutes (vectigal ex capturis), as a state impost: “he levied new and hitherto unheard of taxes; a proportion of the fees of prostitutes;--so much as each earned with one man.
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

The same use of the infinitive is found in Latin, especially with est , as Superâre est grâtum , to conquer is pleasing Vidêre est crêdere , to see is to believe a.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

¡Ver a su hijo casado con Rosarito; verle rico y poderoso; verle emparentado con doña Perfecta, con la señora!...
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

To a people naturally inclined to think that every possible view, every conceivable argument, upon a question is included in a short aphorism, a shrug, and the word "voilà," truths expressed in condensed sentences must always have a peculiar charm.
— from Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims by François duc de La Rochefoucauld

[PRIMO VIAGGIO INTORNO AL MONDO] [FIRST VOYAGE AROUND THE WORLD] Antonio pigafeta patricio vicentino et Caualier de Rhodi aL JlL mo .
— 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

Caab and Hesnus (Pocock, Specimen, p. 43, 46, 48) were likewise conspicuous for their liberality; and the latter is elegantly praised by an Arabian poet: "Videbis eum cum accesseris exultantem, ac si dares illi quod ab illo petis."
— 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

Gratior est pulchro veniens e corpore virtus.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Eurystheus, quī perterrēbātur vī et corpore ingentī Herculis et eum occidī 4 studēbat, ita respondit: “Audī, Herculēs!
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Se podría ver esto como un buen recuerdo, pero odio esta política politizada… El lado bueno de esta situación era que el presidente de la Universidad era el tío de Tom Cruise.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Pax vobiscum et cum spiritu tuo. "
— from Valeria, the Martyr of the Catacombs: A Tale of Early Christian Life in Rome by W. H. (William Henry) Withrow

It is doubtful whether we could find preserved, in churches on British soil, pagan vestiges exactly comparable with the solar wheel.
— from Byways in British Archaeology by Walter Johnson

In anno autem tertio seminate et mettete et plantate vineas et commedite fructum earum non tamen cequitur ( sic ) quin dicta Animalia plantis non utantur quia sunt irrationabilia et carentia sensu neque ea posse dicernere quæ sunt usui hominum destinata vel non certissimum est quia solo instinctu nature ut supra dictum est vivunt non idcirco necesse habent
— from The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals by E. P. (Edward Payson) Evans

d’aisance et ce qui y ajoutera infiniment, ce sera de vous en être redevable, il me reste une grâce à vous demander, Mylord, c’est de me permettre d’aller un jour vous dire de vive voix et tout ce que je sens et tout ce que j’éprouve. J’ai pris la liberté, Mylord, de vous exposer tout ce qui s’étoit passé entre le transport office et moi relativement au jeune prisonnier qu’on m’avoit accordé pour domestique, et dont m’a privé en le faisant rentrer dans la prison, ma position vous est connue, et d’après cela il vous est aisé de juger qu’elle ne me permet pas d’avoir à mon service un domestique au même prix où sont les domestiques Anglois, d’ailleurs je ne parle point assés cette langue pour être servi par un Anglois, et cependant le malheureux état de ma santé, même une sorte de décence ne me permettent pas de n’avoir personne pour me servir, j’ai recours à votre protection, Mylord, et si par celle que vous daigneriés y mettre et l’intérêt que vous avés la bonté de prendre à moi, il étoit en
— from The Depot for Prisoners of War at Norman Cross, Huntingdonshire. 1796 to 1816 by Thomas (Thomas James) Walker

He was tall, round-shouldered, and his clothes were not good, possessing very evident claims to a position on the retired list.
— from A Chosen Few: Short Stories by Frank Richard Stockton

On s'en servait surtout pour vêtements et corsets, pour doublures de draps, de fourrures et d'autres étoffes de soie plus précieuses, enfin pour tenture d'appartements.' ( Bourquelot, Foir. de Champ.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Rustichello of Pisa

Note 120 ( return ) [ Invidiam tamen suscepti nominis (C. P. imperatoribus super hoc indignantibus) magna tulit patientia, vicitque eorum contumaciam...
— from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 by Edward Gibbon

By some mysterious means the report had spread, and what was at first mere rumour had later found substantial confirmation in the discovered presence at the station of two distinguished 213 personages: General Roederer, Commander of the Budavian army, and Prince von Eisenthal, conservative leader of the Budavian Assembly; each accompanied by a more or less gorgeously uniformed retinue.
— from A Prince to Order by Charles Stokes Wayne

Siendo estos sentimientos de justicia, de lealtad y de honor, los que animan al pueblo argentino, y han inspirado en todo tiempo su política, V. E. comprenderá que se haya sentido
— from Argentina, Legend and History by Lucio Vicente López