Parca
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Mox, Acheronteis quas Parca eduxit ab antris, Druriacam nubes corripuere domum.
From Verses and Translations by Calverley, Charles Stuart
Parca superstitio; non thurea flamma, nec altus Accipitur sanguis, lachrymis altaria sudant ...
From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole
What fortunate, or what disastrous bird Omen'd my fate? which Parca winds my yarn, That I alone find Pity deaf as asp, And wretched live who happy hoped to be?
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas
Si piget, et longam traxisse in taedia pompam Vivax, et nimium Bulla videtur anus: Tolle tuos oculos pensum leve defluet, illam Parca metet facili non operosa manu.155 Vixit adhuc.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard
Perhaps its citizens are to be envied rather than pitied: "bene est cui deus obtulit Parca, quod satis est, manu."
From A Cotswold Village by Gibbs, J. Arthur
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