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Υἱῷ μέγιστον ἀγαθόν ἐστ' ἔμφρων πατήρ → Prudente patre bonum non maius filio → Dem Sohn ist ein verständiger Vater größtes Gut

Menander, Monostichoi, 525

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

myrīcē: ēs, or myrīca, ae, f., = μυρίκη,
I the tamarisk, a kind of shrub, Plin. 13, 21, 37, § 116; 24, 9, 41, § 67.—Prov., to signify something impossible: pinguia corticibus sudent electra myricae, Verg. E. 8, 54.