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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)

ăpŏrĭa: ae, f., = ἀπορία,
I doubt, perplexity, embarrassment, with the idea of confusion, disorder: aporia hominis in cogitatu illius, Vulg. Eccli. 27, 5 (in Cic. Att. 7, 21, 3 al., written as Greek).

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

ăpŏrĭa, æ, f., embarras, doute : Vulg. Eccli. 27, 5 ; Jer. 1, 5, 4.

Latin > German (Georges)

aporia, ae, Akk. ān, f. (ἀπορία), die Verlegenheit, Ps. Sen. ep. ad Paul. 10. Vulg. Sirach 27, 3. – als rhet. Fig., Charis. 287, 3 (b. Rutil. Lup. 2, 10 u.a. griech.).

Latin > English

aporia aporiae N F :: doubt, perplexity; embarrassment, disorder