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τὸν καπνὸν φεύγων εἰς τὸ πῦρ ἐνέπεσεν → out of the frying pan into the fire, from the frying pan into the fire

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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

mărisca: ae, f.,
I a large inferior kind of fig.
I Lit.: pingues mariscae, Col. 10, 415: fatua, Mart. 7, 25, 7; in apposition with ficus, Cato, R. R. 8 (also in Plin. 15, 18, 19, § 72); so, mariscae fici, Varr. ap. Non. 550, 31.—*
II Transf., the piles: tumidae mariscae, Juv. 2, 13.