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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)

ămŭlētum: i, n. (Arab. hamalet),
I a sympathetic preservative against sickness, etc., φυλακτήριον, an amulet (usu. hung around the neck): veneficiorum amuleta, Plin. 29, 4, 19, § 66; so id. 30, 15, 47, § 138 al.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

amŭlētum, ī, n., amulette, préservatif : Plin. 28, 38.

Latin > German (Georges)

āmūlētum, ī, n. (v. amoliri als Abwendung des Unheils, vgl. amolimentum), das Amulett, der Talisman (griech. φυλακτήριον, s. Charis. 105, 9. Gloss. II, 16, 39), ein sympathetisches Schutzmittel gegen Krankheit u. Zauberei, gew. als Anhängsel am Hals getragen ( περίαμμα), Plin. 28, 38; 29, 66; 30, 138.