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Πένης ὑπάρχων μὴ φρόνει τὰ πλουσίων → In paupertate spiritus fuge divitum → Als Armer pflege nicht der Reichen Denkungsart

Menander, Monostichoi, 454

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

ăcĭpenser: ĕris, and ăcĭpensis, is (also aquip., not accipenser), m., = ἀκκῐπησίος,
I a fish very highly esteemed in the age of the greatest luxury of the Romans, perh. the sturgeon, Cic. Tusc. 3, 18; id. Fin. 2, 8; Hor. S. 2, 2, 47; Ov. Hal. 132.