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Ἓν οἶδα, ὅτι οὐδὲν οἶδα → I know only one thing, that I know nothing | all I know is that I know nothing.

Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book 2 sec. 32.

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

mergŭlus: i, m. mergo,
I the wick of a lamp: mergulus, ἐλλύχνιον, Gloss. Gr. and Lat.
mergŭlus: i, m.
dim. mergus,
I a diver, a kind of bird, Vulg. Lev. 11, 17; id. Deut. 14, 17.