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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)

pentăpĕtes: is, n., = πενταπετές,
I five-leaf, cinque-foil: quinquefolium Graeci vocant pentapetes sive pentaphyllon, Plin. 25, 9, 62, § 109.