Citations:ærugo mera


 * a Latin phrase meaning “pure copper rust”, alluding to ’s Satire 1.4 (line 101), used figuratively to refer to a notion which is utterly corrosive to mental virtue


 * ante 1663,, The Works of Mr Abraham Cowley (fifth edition, 1678), “Several Diſcourſes by way of Eſſays, in Verſe and Proſe”, essay 10: ‘The danger of Procraſtination: A Letter to Mr. S. L.’, page 140:
 * I am glad that you approve and applaud my deſign, of withdrawing my ſelf from all tumult and buſineſs of the World; and conſecrating the little reſt of my time to thoſe ſtudies, to which Nature had ſo Motherly inclined me, and from which Fortune like a Step-mother had ſo long detained me. But nevertheleſs (you ſay) which But, is Ærugo mera a ruſt which ſpoils the good Metal it grows upon. But (you ſay) you would adviſe me not to precipitate that reſolution, but to ſtay a while longer with patience and complaiſance, till I had gotten ſuch an Eſtate as might afford me (according to the ſaying of that perſon whom you and I love very much, and would believe as ſoon as another man) Cum dignitate otium.