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Ὁ μὲν βίος βραχύς, ἡ δὲ τέχνη μακρή, ὁ δὲ καιρὸς ὀξύς, ἡ δὲ πεῖρα σφαλερή, ἡ δὲ κρίσις χαλεπή → Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience misleading and judgment difficult

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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

con-gĕmĭno: āvi, ātum, 1,
I v. a., to double, redouble, repeat, reduplicate (poet.): nunc si pateram patera peperit, omnes congeminavimus, i. e. have produced our like, doubled ourselves, Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 154: L (litteram), Lucil. S. 9, 9: crebros ictus ensibus, Verg. A. 12, 714; in the same sense, securim, id. ib. 11, 698: suspiria rauco fremitu, Sil. 16, 267: paeana, Val. Fl. 6, 512: vocem, id. 2, 201; App. Dogm. Plat. p. 6, 20.