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cruciamentum

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Ὁ αὐτὸς ἔφησε τὸν μὲν ὕπνον ὀλιγοχρόνιον θάνατον, τὸν δὲ θάνατον πολυχρόνιον ὕπνον → Plato said that sleep was a short-lived death but death was a long-lived sleep

Gnomologium Vaticanum, 446

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

crŭcĭāmentum: i, n. id.,
I torture, torment, pain (very rare): vidi ego multa saepe picta quae Acherunti fierent Cruciamenta, Plaut. Capt. 5, 4, 2; id. As. 2, 2, 52: carnificum (with tormenta morborum), Cic. Phil. 11, 4, 8: ut orbitatis cruciamenta sentiret, Arn. 7, p. 43.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

crŭcĭāmentum,¹⁴ ī, n. (crucio), tourment, souffrance : Pl. Capt. 998 ; Cic. Phil. 11, 8.