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Ἐλεεινότατόν μοι φαίνετ' ἀτυχία φίλου → Miseria amici mihi suprema est miseria → Am meisten Mitleid, scheint's, heischt eines Freundes Leid

Menander, Monostichoi, 180
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mētātor: ōris, m. id.,
I one who metes out or marks off a place, a divider and fixer of boundaries (class.).
I Lit.: castrorum antea metator, nunc, ut sperat, urbis, Cic. Phil. 11, 5, 12; cf. id. ib. 14, 4, 10: templi, Lact. 4, 11.—
II Trop., a measurer: tempus arbiter et metator initii et finis, Tert. adv. Marc. 1, 8.