Odia qui nimium timet, regnare nescit=--He who 10 dreads hostility too much is unfit to bear rule.
Vitiosum est ubique, quod nimium est=--Too 35 much of anything is in every case a defect.
Omne nimium vertitur in vitium=--Every excess develops into a vice.
Nimium altercando veritas amittitur=--In too eager disputation the truth is lost sight of.
Decet affectus animi neque se nimium erigere nec subjicere serviliter=--We ought to allow the affections of the mind to be neither too much elated nor abjectly depressed.
Fortuna nimium quem fovet, stultum facit=--Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much.
In describing the couching of cataract Celsus says: Tum acus admovenda est, acuta ut foret sed non nimium tenuis (VII.
Virgil to the lady, who threw down with her mantua a Cremona fiddle, is the best ever made-- "Mantua vae miserae nimium vicina Cremonae!
Iam nimium etiam: note iam and etiam in the same clause.
Nimium rebus ne fide secundis,—“Be not too confident in prosperity.
In this instance the stanzas of Whitney serve well to express the verses of Sambucus,— Nimiumrebus ne fide secundis.
The agriculturalists were not on this occasion nimium fortunati.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nimium" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
