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Μὴ φῦναι τὸν ἅπαντα νικᾷ λόγον → Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.

Sophocles, Oedipus Coloneus l. 1225

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

vērĭlŏquĭum: ii, n. verus-loquor, a literal transl. of ἐτυμολογία>,
I etymology, for which Cicero proposes the freer rendering, notatio, Cic. Top. 8, 35.