"Nox" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... esse secumque, ut dicitur, vivere! Si vero habet aliquod tamquam pabulum studi atque doctrinae, nihil est otiosa senectute iucundius. Videbamus in studio dimetiendi paene caeli atque terrae Gallum familiarem patris tui, Scipio. Quotiens ilium lux noctu aliquid describere ingressum, quotiens nox oppressit cum mane coepisset! Quam delectabat eum defectiones solis et lunae multo ante nobis praedicere! 50 Quid in levioribus studiis, sed tamen acutis? Quam gaudebat Bello suo Punico Naevius, quam Truculento Plautus, quam Pseudolo! Vidi etiam senem Livium, qui, cum sex ...
— Cato Maior de Senectute • Marcus Tullius Cicero
... Lesbia."—The first stanza is an elegant paraphrase from Catullus, though the last line fails to render the rhythmical sweetness long-drawn-out of "Nox est perpetua ...
— Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age • Various
... immensaque pectore versat Funera, sanguineumque videt fluere undique rivum, Invisamque una gentem miscere ruina Posse putat: summa veluti de rupe leaena Sopitas prospectat oves, ubi plurima toto Incumbit nox campo, illunemque aethera condit. Haud aliter furit, et flammantia lumina torquens Talia voce refert: "Magni regnator Olympi, Ultricem firma dextram, justoque furori Annue, et ipse novam spira in mea pectora flammam. Robora da gladiis insueta, adde ignibus iras, Sic ego ...
— Gustavus Vasa - and other poems • W. S. Walker
... a Dream, which was not all a Dream. (By Somnus and old Nox I fear 'twas not!) Common-sense was extinguished, and Good Taste Did wonder darkling on the verge of doom. I saw a Monster, a malign, marine, Mysterious, many-whorled, mug-lumbering Bogey, Stretched (like Miltonian angels on ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 21, 1893 • Various
... by Sallust), which are often quoted with a kind of holy horror, as though a pontifex maximus might not hold any opinion he pleased about death, and as though his doubt were not the common doubt of innumerable thinking men of the age.[835] Catullus wrote of death as "nox perpetua dormienda"; Lucretius, of course, gloried in the thought that there is no life beyond. In the following century the learned Pliny could write of death as the relapsing into the same nothingness as before we were born, ...
— The Religious Experience of the Roman People - From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus • W. Warde Fowler |
