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Λυπεῖ με δοῦλος δεσπότου μεῖζον φρονῶν → Servus molestu'st supra herum sese efferens → Ein Ärgernis: ein Sklave stolzer als sein Herr

Menander, Monostichoi, 323
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Transliteration A: lychnîtis Transliteration B: lychnitis Transliteration C: lychnitis Beta Code: luxni=tis

English (LSJ)

ιδος, ἡ,

   A candlewick, Verbascum mallophorum, the leaves of which served as lampwicks, Plin.HN25.121, BGU485.10 (ii A. D.); = φλομίς, Dsc.4.103.