 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...Chesterfield had never seen Johnson eat. The letter in which the character is drawn opens with the epigram : Non amo te, Sabidi, nee possum dicere quare, Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te. Chesterfield goes on to show ' how it is possible not to love anybody, and yet not to know... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...Chesterfield had never seen Johnson eat. The letter in which the character is drawn opens with the epigram : Non amo te, Sabidi, nee possum dicere quare, Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te. Chesterfield goes on to show ' how it is possible not to love anybody, and yet not to know... | |
 | 1850 - 806 pages
...guidance, and follow our own path. But like the profound dialectics of Martial, when he argued — ' Non amo te, Sabidi ; nee possum dicere quare, Hoc tantum possum dicere : non amo te,' the objections were confined to generalities, and practically to silent dissent. A kind of... | |
 | Martial - Epigrams - 1816 - 422 pages
...tub; longum dominusque, puerque, fruatur Muneribus, tonsum fac cito, sero virum. 33. Ad Salndium. \ Non amo te, Sabidi, nee possum dicere quare ; Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te. 34. De Geüiá. Amissum non flct, cum sola est, Gellia patrem ; Siquis adest, jussae prosiliunt... | |
 | Martial - Epigrams - 1823 - 556 pages
...erat titra rirum] Id est, sero adoltom. apnd antiqnoi comas et primam bar(XXXIII. AD SAB1DIVM. XON amo te, Sabidi, nee possum dicere quare: Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te. 0 ,S'rtí)¡(íi, non tliligo te, пес ruteo reddere rationem : hoc пиит dicere raleo,... | |
 | Martial - 1825 - 682 pages
...fruantur. Utraquc lectio probari Quo diutius amore ejus fruatur potes!, dominus. XXXIII. AD S ABI DI UM.* NON amo te, Sabidi, nee possum dicere quare : Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te. * АЛ Savidlum in ed. Pulmanni. i. Non amo te Sariili idem Pulmannus. — Nee possum. Vcl... | |
 | Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1827 - 390 pages
...dear child. LETTER CCXII. MY DEAR FRIEND, London, Feb. the 28th, OS 1751. THIS epigram in Martial, Non amo te, Sabidi, nee possum dicere quare, Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te ; has puzzled a great many people ; who cannot conceive how it is possible not to love any body,... | |
 | Hugh Moore - Quotations - 1831 - 528 pages
...sonitu fiunt opera Vulcani. (Lat.) — " A smith cannot work without making a noise." — M. 2687. Non amo te, Sabidi, nee possum dicere quare; Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te. MART. — " I do not love you, I cannot say why, but this I know, that I do not love you."... | |
 | Charles Bucke - Anecdotes - 1837 - 364 pages
...what recess of the universe they are generated, or to what quarter they are permitted to proceed. ' Non amo te, Sabidi, nee possum dicere quare : Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te.' — Martial. A sti anger entering into a society, and seeing the zeal, fury, and passion,... | |
 | John Gideon Millingen - Americana - 1838 - 456 pages
...dislikes to individuals are often as unaccountable, when we are obliged to confess with the poet Martial : Non amo te, Sabidi, nee possum dicere quare; Hoc tantum possum dicere, Non amo te. It is the same with our affections. The ancients, amongst other Empedocles, fancied that attraction... | |
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Non amo te, Sabidi, nee possum dicere quare, Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te " — * * Thus Englished by the famous Tom Brown : 
