Citations:ad infinitum

English citations of ad infinitum

• 1993, Mike Leigh, Naked, spoken by Johnny (David Thewlis):

  And the dot went bang and the bang expanded. Energy formed into matter, matter cooled, matter lived, the amoeba to fish, to fish to fowl, to fowl to frog, to frog to mammal, the mammal to monkey, to monkey to man, amo amas amat, quid pro quo, memento mori, ad infinitum, sprinkle on a little bit of grated cheese and leave under the grill till Doomsday.

Latin citations of ad infinitum

• 45 BCE, Cicero, De Natura Deorum 1.2.14:

  et ad infinitum tempus regantur atque moveantur

• c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 13.18.62:

  in eo nucleus dulcis, dum recens est; siccatus durescit ad infinitum, ut mandi non possit

• c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 17.4.44:

  si inter fontes reperta est, ad infinitum fertilis, verum aspera tractatu; si nimia iniecta est, exurit solum

• c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.84.227:

  ut semen unicaulis adspersum curationi feminarum aviditates augere <ad> infinitum

• c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 26.8.16:

  tum primum pensili balinearum usu ad infinitum blandiente

• c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 31.21.32:

  ideo et nives praeferunt nivibusque etiam glaciem, velut ad infinitum coacta subtilitate

• c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 31.44.95:

  transiit deinde in luxuriam, creveruntque genera ad infinitum

• c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 34.3.5:

  cum ad infinitum operum pretia creverint

• c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 34.16.35:

  sed haec ad infinitum effloruit

• c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 36.24.122:

  quae nunc Romae ad infinitum auxere numerum

• c. 35 CE – 100 CE, Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 11.2.41.9:

  in summam ad infinitum usque perveniat

• c. 4th-5th century, Servius, In Vergilii Aeneidem commentarii 4.493.4:

  accingier' autem, ut ad infinitum modum 'er' addatur

• 533 CE, Justinian, Digest 23.2.53.0.3:

  sive proximi sive ulterioris gradus sint usque ad infinitum

• 533 CE, Justinian, Digest 46.8.8.2.8:

  quia aestimatio libertatis ad infinitum extenderetur