bicorpor

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νεκρὸν ἐάν ποτ' ἴδηις καὶ μνήματα κωφὰ παράγηις κοινὸν ἔσοπτρον ὁρᾶις· ὁ θανὼν οὕτως προσεδόκα → whenever you see a body dead, or pass by silent tombs, you look into the mirror of all men's destiny: the dead man expected nothing else | if you ever see a corpse or walk by quiet graves, that's when you look into the mirror we all share: the dead expected this

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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

bĭcorpor: ŏris, adj. bis-corpus,
I having two bodies, double-bodied (poet. and very rare; late prose form bĭcorpŏrĕ-us, Firm. Math. 2, 12): bicorpores Gigantes, Naev. Bell. Pun. 2, 14 (ap. Prisc. p. 679 P.): Pallas bicorpor, Att. ap. Prisc. p. 699 P.; and so besides only in Cic. in a transl. from Sophocl. Trachin.: manus, Tusc. 2, 9, 22.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

bĭcorpŏr, ŏris, m. et f. (bis, corpus), qui a deux corps : bicorpor manus [poet.] Cic. Tusc. 2, 22, [trad. de Sophocle] la troupe des centaures