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Ἓν οἶδα, ὅτι οὐδὲν οἶδα → I know only one thing, that I know nothing | all I know is that I know nothing.

Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book 2 sec. 32.
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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

per-subtīlis: e, adj.
I Lit., very fine or delicate, very subtle: animus persubtilis atque minutis Perquam corporibus factus, Lucr. 3, 179.—
II Trop., very ingenious: oratio, Cic. Planc. 24, 58.