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  • Ne plus ingerat cavendum quam ventriculus ferre potest, semperque surgat a mensa non satur.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Quid tu moraris? per Jehovam, Gehennam et consecratum aquam quam nunc spargo, signumque crucis quod nunc facio, et per vota nostra, ipse nunc surgat nobis dicatus Mephistophilis!

    Scene III 1909

  • Orientis princeps Belzebub, inferni ardentis monarcha, et Demogorgon, propitiamus vos, ut appareat et surgat Mephistophilis.

    Scene III 1909

  • _general truths_, where the anticipatory notion has faded out; as, -- tempestās minātur antequam surgat, _the tempest threatens before it rises_.

    New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett

  • uror, et in uacuo pectore regnat Amor. sex mihi surgat opus numeris, in quinque residat:

    Epic and Love Elegy Ovid 1912

  • "_Ut ex iis quae animus novit, surgat ad incognita quae non novit_." [

    The Young Priest's Keepsake Michael Phelan

  • “Suspiciones omnes ab se segreget. neque illaec ulli pede pedem homini premat, cum surgat, neque cum in lectum inscendat proximum, neque cum descendat inde, det cuiquam manum: spectandum ne cui anulum det neque roget. talos ne cuiquam homini admoveat nisi tibi. cum iaciat, ‘te’ ne dicat: nomen nominet.

    Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

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  • A demon who may be summoned and who will give a magic stone upon command. (From Heart's Devils)

    June 4, 2008