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L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelleLove that moves the sun and the other stars

Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, XXXIII, v. 145

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

ămŭlētum: i, n. (Arab. hamalet),
I a sympathetic preservative against sickness, etc., φυλακτήριον, an amulet (usu. hung around the neck): veneficiorum amuleta, Plin. 29, 4, 19, § 66; so id. 30, 15, 47, § 138 al.