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Ψευδόμενος οὐδεὶς λανθάνει πολὺν χρόνον → Diu latere non queunt mendacia → Kein Lügner bleibt auf lange Zeit hin unentdeckt

Menander, Monostichoi, 547

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

colluctātĭo: (conl-), ōnis, f. colluctor,
I a wrestling, struggling, contending with something (post-Aug. prose).
I Prop.: in colluctatione vel pancratio, Dig. 9, 2, 7; so of the fighting of oxen, Col. 6, 2, 4.—
II Trop., the death struggle, Sen. Q. N. 3, 18, 1. —Of an embracing in love, App. M. 9, p. 219, 12; Lact. 1, 17.—Of a difficult utterance: est aliis concursus oris et cum verbis suis colluctatio, Quint. 11, 3, 56.