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Τὸ νικᾶν αὐτὸν αὑτὸν πασῶν νικῶν πρώτη τε καὶ ἀρίστη. Τὸ δὲ ἡττᾶσθαι αὐτὸν ὑφ' ἑαυτοῦ πάντων αἴσχιστόν τε ἅμα καὶ κάκιστον. → Τo conquer yourself is the first and best victory of all, while to be conquered by yourself is of all the most shameful as well as evil

Plato, Laws, 626e
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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

căpillātus: a, um, P. a. of capillor, not in use,
I having hair, hairy (cf. barbatus): adulescens bene capillatus, with a fine head of hair, Cic. Agr. 2, 22, 58; Suet. Vesp. 23: capillatior quam ante, Cic. Agr. 2, 5, 13.— As a designation of a primitive age (since the hair was not then shorn; v. barba and barbatus): (vinum) capillato diffusum consule, i.e. very old wine, Juv 5, 30.—Prov.: fronte capillată, post est occasio calva, Cato, Dist. 2, 26; cf. Phaedr. 5, 8, 1 sqq.—Subst.: căpillāti, ōrum, m., young aristocrats, Mart. 3, 57, 31.—
   B Capillata vel capillaris arbor, a tree on which the Vestal virgins suspended their shorn hair, Paul. ex Fest. p. 57 Müll.; cf. Plin. 16, 44, 85, § 235.—
II Transf., of plants, consisting of slender fibres: radices, Plin. 19, 6, 31, § 98: folia, id. 16, 24, 38, § 90.