adamantinus

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κόσμος σκηνή, ὁ βίος πάροδος· ἦλθες, εἶδες, ἀπῆλθες → The world is a stage, life is your entrance: you came, you saw, you departed (Democritus fr. 115 D-K)

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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

ădămantĭnus: a, um, adj., = ἀδαμάντινος,
I hard as steel, etc., adamantine: saxa, Lucr. 2, 447: duritia, Plin. 37, 11, 73. —Hence poet., extremely hard, inflexible, invincible: clavi, Hor. C. 3, 24, 5: tunica, id. ib. 1, 6, 13: juga, Prop. 3, 9, 9; cf. aënus.