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Ubi idem et maximus et honestissimus amor est, aliquando praestat morte jungi, quam vita distrahi → Where indeed the greatest and most honourable love exists, it is much better to be joined by death, than separated by life.

Valerius Maximus, De Factis Dictisque

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

dēbĭtĭo: ōnis, f. debeo,
I an owing, indebtedness (extremely rare): pecuniae et gratiae, Cic. Planc. 28, 68; cf. Gell. 1, 4, 2 sq.: torquetur debitione dotis, Cic. Att. 14, 13, 5.—Transf., the debt, Ambros. de Tobia, 7, 25.