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“Visually austere and narratively clotted, ‘Ad Astra’ tends to work best in isolated scenes rather than in the aggregate,” Manohla Dargis wrote in her review for The Times.

From New York Times • Jul. 3, 2020

It abounds with excellent moral reflections, and the same may be said of it with equal justice as of the Captives:— ‘Ad pudicos mores facta est hæc fabula.’

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by Dunlop, John

“Under the head of rhetoric, the treatises of Cicero, such as the ‘De Oratore’ and the pseudo-Ciceronian ‘Ad Herennium’ were largely read.

From Education in England in the Middle Ages Thesis Approved for the Degree of Doctor of Science in the University of London by Parry, Albert William

What the author means by "Son of 'Ad the Greater," I cannot divine.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 07 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

F'r wan man he'd write on th' prescription 'Ad lib,' as Dock O'Leary does whin he ordhers a mustard plasther f'r me; f'r another he'd write: 'Three times a day at meals.'

From Mr. Dooley Says by Dunne, Finley Peter