The present indicative also occurs in particular past statements in old Latin: as, #is priusquam moritur mihi dedit#, Pl.
Erat mihi gloriosus ille miles cum sua scabie in ædes recipiendus, simulque recipiendus ille chorus titulo Evangelicorum," writes Erasmus to Melancthon, in a letter in which he endeavours to excuse himself.
The Poet in the above passage, is supposed to have had an eye to Juno's address to AEolus in the first book of the AEneid: Gens inimica mihi Tyrrhenum navigat aequor Ilium in Italiam portans, Victos que Penates.
Tu autem mihi pervelim scribas, qui intellexeris illum velle; illud vero utique scire cupio, quem intellexeris Page 131 think very highly, to Brutus as you advised, and you have told me he was gratified.
And yet it would not detract from your Page 268 quod ipsi Agamemnoni, regum regi, fuit honestum, habere aliquem in consiliis capiendis Nestorem, mihi vero gloriosum te iuvenem consulem florere laudibus quasi alumnum disciplinae meae.
Claudian made the same observation, unburdening his heart in these well-known lines: Saepe mihi dubiam traxit sententia mentem, etc.
In the same way one is worthy of praise when one cannot with justice be blamed: Si non culpabor, sat mihi laudis erit.
In Moro mihi videor extinctus"--"I seem to see myself extinct in More.
But the most patient reader will not believe that Mahomet adopted the Catholic form, "Sancta Trinitas quæ mihi donavit imperium te in patriarcham novæ Romæ deligit.
Crux sacra sit mihi lux), a medal always given by St. Vincent de Paul to his Sisters of Charity, as a defence in the many perils of their daily lives.
To confer notoriety on an humble individual who is laboring quietly in his vocation, and who keeps his cloth as free as he can from the dust of the political arena (though vae mihi si non evangelizavero), is no doubt an indecorum.
He had written in capital letters round the walls of his cell these two beautiful lines of an old Latin poet: Tu mihi curarum requies, tu nocte vel atra Lumen, et in solis tu mihi turba locis.
Upon the last clause of the beautiful verse: Et in solis tu mihi turba locis.
The half-insane Caligula had really a clearer vision of the emperor's position than the reactionary dreamers, when he told his grandmother Antonia, "Memento omnia mihi in omnes licere.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mihi" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
