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σιγή ποτ' ἐστὶν αἱρετωτέρα λόγου → sometimes silence is preferable to words (Menander)

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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

bĭcorpor: ŏris, adj. bis-corpus,
I having two bodies, double-bodied (poet. and very rare; late prose form bĭcorpŏrĕ-us, Firm. Math. 2, 12): bicorpores Gigantes, Naev. Bell. Pun. 2, 14 (ap. Prisc. p. 679 P.): Pallas bicorpor, Att. ap. Prisc. p. 699 P.; and so besides only in Cic. in a transl. from Sophocl. Trachin.: manus, Tusc. 2, 9, 22.