Citations:pathetique

Adjective

 * 1704, John Savage, A Select Collection of Letters of the Antients, Letter I., page #5:
 * Let us but imagine we ſaw Rome her ſelf make her preſent Adreſs to your Majeſties in theſe pathetique Expoſtulations : Ye beſt of Princes, Fathers of your Country, have ſome Reſpect to that Venerable Old Age to which those pious Rites have preſerv’d me, and permit me to enjoy those paternal Ceremonies, which never yet gave me Cauſe of Repentance ; ſuffer me to live as I us’d to do, becauſe I am free : This is the Worſhip, that has reduced the World under my Juriſdiction, driven Hannibal from my Walls, and the Senones from my Capitol.