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θάνατος οὐθὲν πρὸς ἡμᾶς, ἐπειδήπερ ὅταν μὲν ἡμεῖς ὦμεν, ὁ θάνατος οὐ πάρεστιν, ὅταν δὲ ὁ θάνατος παρῇ, τόθ' ἡμεῖς οὐκ ἐσμέν. → Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus, Letter to Menoeceus

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

gibbus: a, um, adj. cf. κύπτω, κυφός>, bent, bowed, crooked; v. gibber,
I hunched, humped, gibbous.
I Adj.: calvaria ex interiore parte concava, extrinsecus gibba, Cels. 8, 1.—
II Subst.
   A gibbus, i, m., a hunch, hump, Juv. 10, 294; 309; 6, 109.—
   B gibba, ae, f., the same, Suet. Dom. 23. —
   2    Transf., a hump-like swelling, protuberance, Amm. 23, 4.
gibbus: i,
I
v. the preced. art. II. A.