Toadino2 wrote:Homeri Iliadem aestate tota in tabula sivi, cum illius paginam inspicerem interdum.
If you don't mind: ... in tabula
iacere sivi... (perhaps 'the table' > ital. tavolo, lat. mensa, because lat. tabula > board, ital. asse di legno, pannello).
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There would however be a radical error in attributing this instantenous transition of feeling in the philosopher, to any one of those causes which might naturally be supposed to have had an influence.(
Edgar Allan Poe, by the way.)
Funditus autem erres, si repentinam philosophi mentis commutationem exortam esse putes ex aliqua earum causarum quae plerumque afferri solent.
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When conditions are favourable, sick organisms tend to recover through their own inherent powers of self-healing (
Aldous Huxley, The Art of Seeing, London 1974, p. 1).