toreutice

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πείθεται πᾶς ἥδιον ἢ βιάζεται (Dio Cassius, Historiae Romanae 8.36.3) → it's always more pleasant to be persuaded than to be forced

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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

tŏreutĭcē: ēs, f., = τορευτική,>
I the art of making embossed work, chasing, sculpture ( = caelatura), Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 77.—In apposition: (Phidias) primus artem toreuticen aperuisse judicatur, Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 54; cf. Becker, Gallus, 2, p. 270 (2d edit.).