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Λόγον παρ' ἐχθροῦ μήποθ' ἡγήσῃ φίλον → Sermonem ab hoste benevolum numquam puta → Erachte nie des Feindes Wort als Freundlichkeit

Menander, Monostichoi, 325
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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

tympănŏtrĭba: ae, m., = τυμπανοτρίβης>,
I a taborer, a timbrel-player, a term of reproach for a soft, effeminate person (alluding to the priests of Cybele), Plaut. Truc. 2, 7, 49; cf. tympanum.