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Ut pueris placeas et declamatio
et sævas curre per Alpes, / Ut pueris placeas, et declamatio fias —Go, madman, and run over the savage Alps to please schoolboys, and become the subject of declamation.
— 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.

Ut pueris placeas et declamatio
I, demens, et saevas curre per Alpes, Ut pueris placeas et declamatio fias.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

un piccolo pesce e di
Al giorno di grasso, un mezzo pollo ovvero un piccolo boccone d'arrosto; al giorno di magro un piccolo pesce; e di poi andiamo a dormire.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

ut pueris placeas et declamatio
I demens, et suevas curre per Alpes, Aude Aliquid, &c. ut pueris placeas, et declamatio fias.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

unplanned private production each department
Since in both departments the mode of production is capitalistic, that is unplanned, private production, each department can distribute its own products—means of production in Department I and consumer goods in Department II—amongst its own capitalists only by way of commodity exchange, i.e. by a large number of individual sale transactions between capitalists of the same department.
— from The Accumulation of Capital by Rosa Luxemburg

ut plebi placeam et declamatio
Yet you, with great unconcern, desire me to quit my family, and all my amusements and enjoyments, that I may come to town to endure complete wretchedness, and have a bad dinner and an indigestion everyday, ut plebi placeam et declamatio fiam .
— from Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. by Henry Reeve

Ut pueris placeas et declamatio
I, demens, et saevos curre per Alpes, Ut pueris placeas, et declamatio fias, is part of the illiberal censure which is thrown by this poet on the person and action of a leader, who, by his courage and conduct, in the very service to which the satire referred, had well nigh saved his country from the ruin with which it was at last at last overwhelmed.
— from An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Eighth Edition by Adam Ferguson

ut pueris placeant et declamatio
So low is heroic Alexander fallen, so low is imperial Cæsar, ‘ ut pueris placeant et declamatio fiant. ’
— from An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent by John Henry Newman

un peu plus en detail
avait lieu d'esperer que Sa Majeste Prussienne ne refuserait pas au moins de s'expliquer un peu plus en detail qu'elle n'a fait jusqu'ici.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 07 by Thomas Carlyle

Upassæ Ph E D
Uvæ siccatæ , Uva (Ph. L.), Upassæ (Ph. E. & D.), L. “The prepared fruit of Vitis vinifera ” (Linn.)—Ph.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

Ut pueris placeas et declamatio
The person who first suggested this was a man certainly no friend of Catholics, Le Clerc, better known by his literary name of Clericus; who observes that school exercises were sometimes drawn from martyrdoms, as in our day from a classical subject, as Juvenal says of Hannibal: "I demens et saevas curre per Alpes Ut pueris placeas et declamatio flas.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various


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