"Optimum" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... & congruens; Sic ex summis, & mediis, & infimis interjectis ordinibus, ut sonis, moderata ratione civitas, consensu dissimillimorum concinit, & quae harmonia a musicis dicitur in cantu, ea est in Civitate concordia: arctissimum atq; optimum in Repub. vinculum incolumitatis, quae fine justitia nullo pacto esse potest. i. e. As in Fiddles and Flutes, and even in Singing and Voices, a certain Consort of distinct Sounds is to be observed; which if it be alter'd, or not tunable, skilful Hearers ...
— Franco-Gallia • Francis Hotoman
... not shift. From Seneca; the title from Ep. cvii.: Optimum est pati quod emendare non possis, the epigram from De Provid. 4, as translated by Thomas Lodge, 1614, "Vertuous instructions are never delicate. Doth fortune beat and rend us? Let us suffer it"—whence Herrick reproduces the printer's error, ...
— The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 • Robert Herrick |
