otium cum dignitate
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Even Plato, when the schools of Athens were not a hundred years old, was in circumstances to enjoy the otium cum dignitate.
From Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American by Eliot, Charles William
They were enjoying their otium cum dignitate, as befits gentlemen, scholars, and divines, and they certainly deserved greater respect from the undergraduates than they received.
From My Autobiography A Fragment by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)
The otium cum dignitate, if it ever come, will come as well years after this as now.
From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 by Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)
If I mistake not much, he will in the course of a year enjoy perfect otium cum dignitate.
From Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) by Wragg, H.
The inhabitants were lying about in front of it, evidently enjoying the otium cum dignitate.
From Adventures in Australia by Kingston, William Henry Giles
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