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ἡ κέρκος τῇ ἀλώπεκι μαρτυρεῖ → you can tell a fox by its tail, small traits give the clue to the character of a person
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|gf=(1) <b>ăcerra</b>,¹³ æ, f., petite boîte à encens : Virg. En. 5, 745 ; Hor. O. 3, 8, 2 || autel [où l’on brûlait l’encens devant les morts] : P. Fest. 18, 7 ; Cic. Leg. 2, 60. | |gf=(1) <b>ăcerra</b>,¹³ æ, f., petite boîte à encens : Virg. En. 5, 745 ; Hor. O. 3, 8, 2 || autel [où l’on brûlait l’encens devant les morts] : P. Fest. 18, 7 ; Cic. Leg. 2, 60.||autel [où l’on brûlait l’encens devant les morts] : P. Fest. 18, 7 ; Cic. Leg. 2, 60. | ||
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Revision as of 07:19, 14 August 2017
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
ăcerra: ae, f. etym. unc., perh. from ăcer = maple,
I a casket in which was kept the incense used in sacrifices, esp. in burning the dead, an incense-box: ne sumptuosa respersio, ne longae coronae, nec acerrae praetereantur, from the XII. Tab. ap. Cic. Leg. 2, 24, 60: plenā veneratur larem, Verg. A. 5, 745; cf.: plena turis, Hor. C. 3, 8, 2; tacitā libabit acerrā, Pers. 2, 5; so also Ov. M. 13, 703; id. Pont. 4, 8, 39; Fratr. Arval. in Orell. I. L. 2270, p. 391 al. Cf. Fest. s. h. v. p. 18 Müll, who gives another signif.: “ACERRA, ara, quae ante mortuum poni solebat.”>
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
(1) ăcerra,¹³ æ, f., petite boîte à encens : Virg. En. 5, 745 ; Hor. O. 3, 8, 2 || autel [où l’on brûlait l’encens devant les morts] : P. Fest. 18, 7 ; Cic. Leg. 2, 60.
