delectus

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Their position, as the Latin Delectus p. 214says concerning the passion of love in general, was ‘a strange thing, and full of anxious fears.’

From The Disentanglers by Lang, Andrew

Fate was powerless against one who had mastered the Delectus.

From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Holmes, Daniel Turner

Havet points out that this is not Martial's, but is to be found in Epigrammatum Delectus, published by Port-Royal in 1659.

From Pascal's Pensées by Pascal, Blaise

"Oh yes, sir," said Henry, "I've been all through my Latin grammar and the Delectus, and now I'm learning Greek."

From Englefield Grange or Mary Armstrong's Troubles by Paull, H. B.

"Gemmarum antiquarum Delectus ex pr�stantioribus desumptus in Dactylotheca Ducis Marlburiensis," Two vols, folio, 1783, &c.

From A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Bryant, Jacob