captas

Now it is very strange how slight men and slight incidents bear on the great events of life; but that simple letter was instrumental to a new revolution in the strange history of Maltravers. QUID frustra simulacra fugacia captas? Quod petis est nusquam.* OVID: Met. iii. 432. * "Why, in vain, do you catch at fleeting shadows? That which you seek is nowhere."

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - Alice, or the Mysteries — Complete

I have frequently practised it myself; as, for instance, in the following passage of my fourth Invective against Verres: "Conferte hanc Pacem cum illo Bello; hujus Praetoris Adventum, cum illius Imperatoris Victoria; hujas Cohortem impuram, cum illius Exercitu invicto; hujus Libidines, cum illius Continentia; ab illo qui cepit conditas; ab hoc, qui constitutas accepit, captas dicetis Syracusas."

Marcus Tullius Cicero - Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker.

Att. 3, 15, 1; Fin. 5, 9; Off. 1, 152; Cluent. 178. INFIRMIUS: sc. auam antea erat. QUAM SIT IUSTA: Cicero generally separates from the words they qualify quam, tam, ita, tantus, quantus, often, as here, by one small word. Cf. below, 35 quam fuit imbecillus; 40 tam esse inimicum. QUIBUS: the preposition a is often omitted; cf. in Pis. 91 Arsinoen ... Naupactum fateris ab hostibus esse captas.

Marcus Tullius Cicero - Cato Maior de Senectute with Introduction and Notes

Now it is very strange how slight men and slight incidents bear on the great events of life; but that simple letter was instrumental to a new revolution in the strange history of Maltravers. QUID frustra simulacra fugacia captas? Quod petis est nusquam.* OVID: Met. iii. 432. * "Why, in vain, do you catch at fleeting shadows? That which you seek is nowhere."

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - Alice, or the Mysteries — Book 10