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Ψυχῆς μέγας χαλινὸς ἀνθρώποις ὁ νοῦς → Animi nam frenum magnum mens est hominibus → Der Menschenseele fester Zügel ist Vernunft

Menander, Monostichoi, 549

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

ēvĭdentĭa: ae, f. evidens,
I clearness, distinctness.—In rhet. lang., clearness, perspicuity; used by Cicero along with perspicuitas, as a transl. of ἐνάργεια>. Cic. Ac. 2, 6, 17; cf. Quint. 6, 2, 32; 4, 2, 63; 9, 2, 40.—
II A proof: magna suae ostensionis, of his own manifestation, Vulg. 2 Macc. 3, 24.