dis aliter visum

[ dees ah-li-ter wee-soom; English dis al-i-ter vahy-suhm ]

Latin.

1. the gods have deemed otherwise.

Example Sentences

“Dîs aliter visum” is from Virgil, Æn. ii.

From Project Gutenberg

But, dis aliter visum and all undefeated, he turned his back upon La Corte, and marched northwards with no apparent reason or policy, closely pressed by the new commander-in-chief of the Cristino forces, a man whose name is distinguished above that of any of his fellows in the contemporary history of his country.

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And so freshly at that time came the remembrance of the happy days I had passed in his quiet home, dreaming the hours away within sight of the heaving bosom of the blue, boundless Pacific Ocean, so deliciously restful after the stormy life of the Leonora and her wild commander, that I believe I really intended to return to Strong's Island some day; but, as we used to say at Sydney college, "Dîs aliter visum."

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All this he might have been; sed dîs aliter visum—he devoted himself, heart and soul, throughout life, to the labours of the bar, and the acquisition by them of a rapid and large fortune, and official distinction.

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The famous singer in "Dis Aliter Visum" knows that art, verse, music, count as naught beside "love found, gained, and kept."

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