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In the better and wiser tone of feeling with Ovid only expresses in one line to retract in that which follows, I can address these quires— Parve, nec invideo, sine me, liber, ibis in urbem.

From The Bride of Lammermoor by Scott, Walter, Sir

Parve, nec invideo, sine me liber, ibis in aulam.

From The Physiology of Taste by Robinson, Fayette

Peyrère seems to have foretold the fate of his book and his own escape in the following line:— Parve, nec invideo, sine me, liber, ibis in ignem.

From Books Fatal to Their Authors by Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)

Era il giorno ch’ al sol di color raro Parve la piet� da suo fattore, ai rai Quand Io fu preso; e non mi guardai Che ben vostri occhi dentro mi legaro.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac

The brass contains two Latin lines modelled on the lines of Ovid's "Tristia," and run: "Parve, nec invideo, sine me, puer, ibis ad astra, Parve, nec invideas, laetus ad astra sequar."

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See by Massé, H. J. L. J. (Henri Jean Louis Joseph)