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ξεῖν’, ἀγγέλλειν Λακεδαιμονίοις ὅτι τῇδε κείμεθα τοῖς κείνων ῥήμασι πειθόμενοι. → Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here, obedient to their laws, we lie.

Simonides of Kea

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

fŏrābĭlis: e, adj. foro,
I that may be pierced, penetrable: forabilia ac sectilia quae modice umida, Plin. 16, 43, 83, § 227. —Vulnerable: contemptor ferri nulloque forabilis ictu, Ov. M. 12, 170.