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Ubi idem et maximus et honestissimus amor est, aliquando praestat morte jungi, quam vita distrahi → Where indeed the greatest and most honourable love exists, it is much better to be joined by death, than separated by life.

Valerius Maximus, De Factis Dictisque
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Transliteration A: Ádōnis Transliteration B: Adōnis Transliteration C: Adonis Beta Code: *)/adwnis

English (LSJ)

[ᾰ], ιδος (also ιος Pherecr.198), ὁ, Adonis,

   A ὦ τὸν Ἄδωνιν Sapph.63; Ἀδώνι' ἄγομεν καὶ τὸν Ἄ. κλάομεν Pherecr.170; ὥδωνις, i.e. ὁ Ἄ., Theoc.3.47:—hence, generally, favourite, darling, δεῖ Ἀδώνιδας αὐτοὺς ἀκούειν Luc.Merc.Cond.35, cf. Alciphr.1.39, AP5.112 (Marc.Arg.).    2 Ἀδώνιδος κῆποι cuttings planted in pots for the Adonia, Pl.Phdr.276b, Thphr.HP6.7.3, cf. Theoc.15.113: prov., of any short-lived pleasure, Sch.Pl.l.c.    3 αὐλὴ Ἀδώνιδος, at Rome, garden on the Palatine, Philostr.VA7.32.    II kind of flying-fish, = ἐξώκοιτος, Clearch.73, Opp.H. 1.157, etc.    III Adonis-flower, Anemone fulgens, Aus.Idyll.6.11.