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L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelleLove that moves the sun and the other stars

Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, XXXIII, v. 145

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

allex: = alec, q. v.
allex: ĭcis, m., acc. to Isid. Gloss.,
I the great toe; hence, in derision, of a little man: tune hic amator audes esse, allex viri? thou thumb of a man, thumbling? Plaut. Poen. 5, 5, 31.