delectamentum

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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)

dēlectāmentum: i, n. id.,
I a delight (very rare): pro delectamento, amusement, pastime, Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 79: delectamenta puerorum, etc., Cic. Pis. 25, 60: pacis, Nazar. Paneg. Const. 35: somni, Vulg. Sap. 7, 2.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

dēlectāmentum,¹⁶ ī, n. (delecto), charme, amusement : Ter. Haut. 952 ; Cic. Pis. 60.