obliquitas

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Ubi idem et maximus et honestissimus amor est, aliquando praestat morte jungi, quam vita distrahi → Where indeed the greatest and most honourable love exists, it is much better to be joined by death, than separated by life.

Valerius Maximus, De Factis Dictisque

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

oblīquĭtas: ātis, f. obliquus,
I a sidelong or slanting direction, obliqueness, obliquity (post-Aug.), Plin. 3, 5, 6, § 40: sigui feri, id. 2, 19, 17, § 81.—
II Transf., ambiguity: oraculi, Prisc. 1137 P.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

oblīquĭtās,¹⁶ ātis, f. (obliquus), obliquité : Plin. 2, 81 ; 3, 40