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ῥεῖα δ' ἀρίζηλον μινύθει καὶ ἄδηλον ἀέξει, ῥεῖα δέ τ' ἰθύνει σκολιὸν καὶ ἀγήνορα κάρφει → easily he humbles the proud and raises the obscure, and easily he straightens the crooked and blasts the proud (Hesiod, Works and Days 6-8)

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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

gălactītes: ae, m., and gălactītis, ĭdis, f., = γαλακτίτης> and γαλακτῖτις,
I a precious stone of a milk-white color, otherwise unknown, milk-stone, Plin. 37, 10, 59, § 162. —Called also gălaxias, ae, m., = γαλαξίας>, id. ib.