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English	Latin
(fig.) licking a cub into shape (Pliny the Elder)	lambendo paulatim figurant
a brief time if you count the years; an age if you count the changes it brought forth (Pliny the Younger)	si computes annos, exiguum tempus; si vices rerum, ævum putes
a monument is an unnecessary expense; our memory will endure if we have earned it by our life (Pliny the Younger)	impensa monumenti supervacua est; memoria nostra durabit si vita meruimus
an object in possession seldom retains the same charms that it had when it was longed for (Pliny the Younger)	nihil enim æque gratum est adeptis, quam concupiscentibus
and as in men’s bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head (Pliny the Younger)	utque in corporibus, sic in imperio, gravissimus est morbus qui a capite diffunditur
Attic salt (i.e., a keen wit) (Pliny the Elder)	sal Atticum
bad luck, misfortune	infelicitas
calamity, misfortune, disaster	calamitas
chance (or misfortune) will at some time or another find the one whom it has often passed by (Publilius Syrus)	casus quem sæpe transit, aliquando invenit
every misfortune is to be subdued by patience (Virgil)	superanda omnis fortuna ferendo est
evil, misfortune, misdeed, crime, injury, damage	malum
fields left fallow recover their fertility (Pliny the Elder)	derelicta fertilius revivescunt
genius often goes to waste through misfortune (Phædrus)	sæpe ingenia calamitate intercidunt
he is gone from us, full of years and full of honors (Pliny the Younger)	plenus annis abiit, plenus honoribus
he reads no book from which he did not make extracts. He also used to say, no book was so bad but good of some kind might be got out of it (Pliny the Elder)	nihil enim legit, quod non excerperet. Dicere etiam solebat, nullum esse librum tam malum, ut non aliqua parte prodesset

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