However it is perhaps because envy manifestly arises from vainglory, that it is not reckoned a capital sin, either by Isidore (De Summo Bono) or by Cassian (De Instit.
De Summo Bono ii, 38]) that it is "the downfall of all virtues.
For Isidore says (De Summo Bono i, 3) that "the Trinity is known only to Itself and to the Man assumed.
Further, Isidore says (De Summo Bono) that the angels have learnt many things by experience.
But those sins which are due thereto man perpetrates "through being deceived by the same blandishments as were our first parents," as Isidore says (De Summo Bono ii).
He made the index for this himself, devoting the labour of the entire morning for ten months (a summo mane ad tempus cœnæ) to an occupation from which so little glory could accrue.
The celestial globes have the following inscription: "Sphaera nova summostudio summaque diligentia atque industria Clarissimi viri D.
Cupidinis aestro percita e summo praeceps ruit, hoping thus to ease herself, and to be freed of her love pangs.
Hence it is rather his brilliant sketches of a vicious society, his fiery outbursts of rhetoric, his striking sententiae that primarily impress the reader: expende Hannibalem: quot libras in duce summo invenies?
The other face bears the lines of Juvenal: "Expende--quot libras in duce summo invenies.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "summo" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
