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Οὔτοι συνέχθειν, ἀλλὰ συμφιλεῖν ἔφυν → I was not born to hate, but to love.

Sophocles, Antigone, 523

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

dĕ-ascĭo: āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. 1, ascio,
I to hew or cut with an axe, to smoothe.
I Lit. (late Lat.): deasciato stipiti, wrought, smoothed, Prud. στεφ. 10, 381.—
   B To rub out, efface: hunc titulum, Murat. Inscr. 1203, 9.—
II Trop.: aliquem, to cheat, to chouse (cf. abrado), Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 11.