albidus

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καλῶς δρῶν ἐξαμαρτεῖν μᾶλλοννικᾶν κακῶς → I would prefer to fail with honor than to win by evil | I prefer to fail by acting rightly rather than win by acting wrongly | Better fail by doing right, than win by doing wrong (Sophocles, Philoctetes 95)

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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

albĭdus: a, um, adj. albus,
I white (very rare): spuma, * Ov. M. 3, 74: granum, Col. R. R. 2, 9, 13: ulcus, Cels. 5, 26: pus albidius, id. 5, 28, n. 4: pus albidissimum, id. 5, 26, n. 20: color caeruleo albidior, Plin. Ep. 8, 20, 4.—Adv. not used.