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Λύπης ἰατρός ἐστιν ἀνθρώποις λόγος – For men reason is a healer of grief – Für Menschen ist der Trauer Arzt allein das WortMaeroris unica medicina oratio.

Menander, Sententiae, 452

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

quantillus: a, um,
I adj. dim. quantulus, how small a deal, i. e. how little, how small, how diminutive (Plautin.).
   1    Interrog.: huic debet Philolaches paulum. Then. Quantillum? Tra. Quasi quadraginta minas, Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 95; id. Ps. 4, 7, 95; id. Curc. 1, 2, 14.— In exclamations: haecine sunt meae filiae? Quantae e quantillis jam sunt factae! Plaut. Poen. 5, 3, 47; id. Truc. 2, 8, 7.—
   2    Rel.: subducam ratiunculam, quantillum argenti mihi apud trapezitam siet, Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 90.