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Sunt verba voces quibus hunc lenire dolorem possis, magnam morbi deponere partem → Words will avail the wretched mind to ease and much abate the dismal black disease.

Horace, Epistles 1.34
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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

furcilla: ae, f.
dim. furca,
I a little fork: herba subsecari falcibus debet et, quoad perarescat, furcillis versari, Varr. R. R. 1, 49, 1; 1, 8, 6; Col. 2, 10, 13: quoniam furcillā extrudimur, Brundisium cogito, Cic. Att. 16, 2, 4; cf.: musae furcillis praecipitem eiciunt, Cat. 105, 2.—Also, ‡furcilles, sivefurcilla, quibus homines suspendebant, Paul. ex Fest. p. 88 Müll.